Somewhere far away and unheard another phone had begun to ring.
In the darkened projection room the chairman sat to one side smoking and thinking while the psychologist played the film through for the fourth time.
The wind wrapped their enveloping capes around them and made them all look abnormally tall and columnar.
At the first sight of the approaching figure he had instinctively leaned back against the concrete railing and taken his gun from its pocket holster, holding it lightly in his gloved hand.
As he waited he heard the faint clang of magnetic soles hitting the metal of the airlock, and then the door chimes that announced that the airlock was being used.
Behind the silver door was a corridor leading to the airlock and space.
Pierce returned and came in to help Bryce drag the corpses through the airlock and into space.
Then the airlock opening was beside them, and the sling rolled inward.
Cochrane, at the moment, felt an impulse to heave him out an airlockas a probable danger.
There was an airlock and another jeep waited outside, and there were eccentric metal devices on the flat space, shielded from direct sunshine and with cables running to them from the airlock door.
The airlock door was open, and the end of a weapon peered out.
They stopped in space to extrude from the airlock a small package which expanded into a forty-foot plastic balloon with a minute atomic battery attached to it.
In twenty minutes or so, Cochrane and Holden went into the airlock and the door closed.
There was an airlock with a smaller edition of the moon-jeep that had brought them from the ship to the city.
The vessel touched down before the vast, geodesic Headquarters building, after first passing through the airlockof the encircling dome.
The airlock was opened, and the cruiser raised inside it.
Getting through the airlock should be easy enough.
A faulty cigarette lighter irritated him, a failing airlock control made him angry and sullen and then hysterical.
Wait in the airlock for thirty seconds after the outer port opens.
Hoskins wiped sweat away from his upper lip and stood blinking into the airlock until the outer port opened as well.
After the last shades of violet had faded, I opened the airlock and watched Ven, a darker blot in the darkness of the night, slip away into the shadows.
She sat down beside the airlock and struggled out of her clothing, ripping the thin fabric under the last of Ven's anger until she was completely naked.
Who would have thought that I, a male, could lift a mature female into a ship's airlock even against normal gravity?
It took the controller to make him keep his distance as he stood in front of the airlock and hated me.
I didn't want Ven to shoot, but I couldn't close the airlock with her inside it.
A porthole should be better than an airlock if it's big enough to climb through.
He knew it was the right ship because the outer airlock door had swung open again.
Right," she said as they both climbed into the Gormann '87's airlockand waited for the pressure to leave it and the outer door to swing out into space.
Damis gave a mighty bound and leaped through the airlock of the ship.
No further message came to Damis from the Martians and he entered the airlock with Turgan following him.
She entered the airlockand in a few moments was again inside the ship.
With a mighty bound, Damis sprang through the door of the space ship and the airlockclanged shut behind him.
Before them lay the space ship with its airlock wide open.
Lura and a half dozen of the crew were passed through the airlock and joined them.
As the airlock opened and Damis and Turgan appeared there was silence for a moment and then a thunderous shout of joy rose to the heavens.
We got out of the ship and made damned sure the airlock was locked.
As he stepped down from the airlock of the Mars I, he placed that foot on a convenient rock, caught the toe of his weighted boot in a hole in the rock, wrenched his ankle and smote the ground with his pants.
Lower and lower dropped the speedboat, her rockets flaming ever brighter, until her slender length lay level with the airlock door.
In the tiny airlock of the slender plane crouched a space-line man with coiled cable in readiness, but he was not needed.
I picked a bar, whose airlock was painted to look like a brick tunnel, and walked in.
The airlock irised shut behind me and I blinked in the gloom.
The saloons were doing well enough, apparently, from the number that streamed in through their airlock entrances.
The driver swore at the lash of sound, and grabbed for the airlock switch.
So there was an element of despair in Endlich's quick actions as he slammed Neely's face-window and his own shut, picked up his enemy, and used his jets to propel him in the long leap to the airlock of the dome.
After the massive airlockwas in place, they attached their electrolysis apparatus to the small atomic battery, which had been used to run the well-driller.
Next we fit in the airlock cabinet, at one corner.
A few minutes later, Arcot, Morey, and Fuller stepped out of theairlock and set to work, using power flashlights to examine the outer hull for any signs of possible strain.
They closed the airlockand were ready to start again.
We've torn out the wall; just hang outside with the airlock open and wait for us.
They entered through the airlock close to the base of the ship.
Arcot brought the ship down beside the tower and the men once more went out through the airlock into the cold of the almost airless world.
As the airlock swung open, Arcot and Morey headed out through the breach in the wall.
A moment later, he left the airlock and launched himself into space, flying swiftly toward the ship.
A short time later, they stepped out of the airlockonto the ice field of the frozen world.
XXIII Richard Arcot stepped into the open airlock of the Ancient Mariner and walked down the corridor to the library.
It dropped down to the surface of the small planetoid only ten meters from the hidden trapdoor that led to the airlock beneath the surface.
The airlock trapdoor opened, and a spacesuited figure came out.
He climbed out of the little grotto where he had concealed himself and moved toward the spot where he knew the airlock to the caverns underneath the planetoid's surface was hidden.
That's the good news, said the second suited figure as it came from the airlock of the grounded spaceboat.
Tolto dragged him in to the safety of the airlock opening, where he could watch.
When the rain of small stones and dust had subsided, they rubbed their eyes and saw that the airlock was no more.
He found himself on a circular roof, bare except for the airlock and a number of upright posts, whitened by the Sun.
There was a guard outside the airlock of each of the warships, for the crews remained aboard constantly.
Disconnect a tiny spring, cut a wire, and it was impossible to close the massive airlock door.
We checked out at the airlock and drove out to the spaceport over the sand-filled roadbed that no amount of work ever kept clean.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
