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Example sentences for "the air"

  • In his efforts against the numbing pain he was like a man wrestling with a creature of the air.

  • What hats and caps were left to them they often slung high in the air.

  • In the air, always, was a mighty swell of sound that it seemed could sway the earth.

  • From the top of a small hill came level belchings of yellow flame that caused an inhuman whistling in the air.

  • This uproar explained a celestial battle; it was tumbling hordes a-struggle in the air.

  • You never met them in the air or on tree-tops.

  • He showed her how to use the fork while he dug about roots with the spade and stirred the earth and let the air in.

  • He had wandered by blue lakes and thought them; he had lain on mountain-sides with sheets of deep blue gentians blooming all about him and flower breaths filling all the air and he had thought them.

  • It twirled in the air, and then flew back over his head.

  • Step into the summer-house; the air is quiet there.

  • Now look there ahead of us, at that halo in the air, of silvery brightness.

  • The rain was quite ordinary in quantity; the air in temperature.

  • They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.

  • A relaxed throat, a voice that lay on the breath, that had never been forced off the breath; it rose and fell in the air-column like the little balls which are put to shine in the jet of a fountain.

  • The air was so clear that the white sand hills to the east of Moonstone gleamed softly.

  • The air was a tender blue-gray, like the color on the doves that flew in and out of the white dove-house on the post in the Kohlers' garden.

  • The air is cool and it darkens, And calmly flows the Rhine; The summit of the mountain hearkens In evening sunshine line.

  • By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest.

  • At once Annixter, even to Harran's surprise, put his chin in the air, making excuses, fearing to compromise himself if he accepted too readily.

  • The old fellow put his chin in the air, shutting his eyes in a knowing fashion.

  • On the following day they met--but as flying leaves meet in the air.

  • What with the misery for her children, the poor, and the rain, her mind was like a wound exposed to dry in the air.

  • The hall, when emptied of its furniture, brilliantly lit, adorned with flowers whose scent tinged the air, presented a wonderful appearance of ethereal gaiety.

  • Her mother having died when she was eleven, two aunts, the sisters of her father, brought her up, and they lived for the sake of the air in a comfortable house in Richmond.

  • A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

  • The air is deliciously cool," she said, "the moonlight peaceful and poetic, and the garden inviting.

  • I am only very tired," she repeated wearily, as she allowed Lord Fancourt to lead her, where subdued lights and green plants lent coolness to the air.

  • Dear Enemy: You doctored the whole house, then stalked past my library with your nose in the air, while I was waiting tea with a plate of Scotch scones sitting on the trivet, ordered expressly for you as a peace-offering.

  • A faint suggestion of iodoform floats in the air.

  • Bretland picked her up and tossed her in the air as handily as though it were a daily occurrence, while she ecstatically shrieked her delight.

  • Father Brown was silent and motionless for half a minute, then he said: "Superstition is irreligious, but there is something in the air of this place.

  • The only big dinner table was the celebrated terrace table, which stood open to the air on a sort of veranda overlooking one of the most exquisite old gardens in London.

  • But last of all, that no breath of this idiotic suspicion remain in the air, I will tell you all you want to know.

  • The third represented the upper half of a human figure, ending in an escalloped line like the waves; the face was rubbed and featureless, and both arms were held very stiffly up in the air.

  • The gardener caught the cold crash of the water full in his face like the crash of a cannon-ball; staggered, slipped and went sprawling with his boots in the air.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the air" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common thing; the door; the father; the government; the mountain; the place; the tent; the west; the wine; thee alone; thee knows; then brought; then curs; then found; then goes; then roll; then spread; then take off the; then that; then thought; thence west; there wasn; these facts; these parts; these points; thet thar