Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "ventilate"

Lexicographically close words:
ventas; vente; vented; venter; venti; ventilated; ventilating; ventilation; ventilator; ventilators
  1. It is important to ventilate freely at all times, except during severe weather when the structures should have the protection of mats or straw, and excessive moisture must be guarded against.

  2. After the plants are well established, ventilate freely to secure robust growth.

  3. It is precisely on this principle, of maintaining a double current by artificial means, that the bees ventilate their crowded habitations.

  4. Consider that God has given us an atmosphere of pure health-giving air 45 miles high, and ventilate your houses.

  5. Few things in the range of their wonderful instincts, are so well fitted to impress the mind with their admirable sagacity, as the truly scientific device, by which these wise little insects ventilate their dwellings.

  6. It took us some time to dry and ventilate the ship, the rigging being filled, for a day or two, with wet pea-jackets and mattresses, and the decks strewed with mouldy boots and shoes.

  7. He undertakes to ventilate the House of Lords.

  8. It was the business of private members to ventilate such questions, and the duty of the Government to take them up only when public opinion declared it to be expedient.

  9. Many still think that it requires no science at all to ventilate a chamber, to clean out a drain, and to keep house and person free from uncleanness.

  10. Mr. Sikes next proceeded to ventilate the question of Post Office Savings Banks.

  11. I found that, through certain papers which she had, and which she did not hesitate to show me, she would be able to ventilate a scandal which might result just as she adroitly prophesied.

  12. You told me that day in the vaults that you were in the woman's power, that she could ventilate certain scandals which might break your engagement.

  13. To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

  14. Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those starling, but not very profound, paradoxes.

  15. To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.

  16. It was also less difficult to ventilate it, by means of canvas funnels which opened without.

  17. The space between decks was securely enclosed, and every morning care was taken to ventilate it with fresh air.

  18. Show how to ventilate a sick room while protecting the patient from direct draughts.

  19. At D, is the gallery of discharge for the waters, which serves also to ventilate the mine, being cut to the day, through 936 toises of syenitic porphyry and gneiss.

  20. To prevent such occurrences as far as possible, ventilate by raising the hives on little blocks at the corners, and effectually protect them from the sun; and if necessary, wet the outside with cold water.

  21. Ventilate the bed every day to allow steam and ammonia fumes to pass off.

  22. If the bed gets too hot, you can ventilate it with a sharp stick by thrusting it down into the soil.

  23. Whenever a patient comes in with tuberculosis, they send a visiting nurse to his home, to show him how best to ventilate his rooms, and to bring in all the other members of the family to the dispensary for examination.

  24. What is the best way to ventilate a room?

  25. So it is well to remember that we are fearfully poisonous to ourselves, unless we give nature full chance to ventilate us.

  26. It would be difficult to ventilate a room for even four or five persons without producing, in parts of it, a noticeable draft of air.

  27. In ventilating, we ought to ventilate the people in the room, as well as the room itself.

  28. If there be any room which hasn't windows enough in it to ventilate it properly, it is unfit for human occupation, and is seldom properly lighted.

  29. The latter are often due to the wearing of too tight or too heavy clothing, or the failure properly to wash, cleanse, and ventilate the skin.

  30. No mountain cabin needs a window to ventilate it: there are cracks and cat-holes everywhere, and, as I have said, the doors are always open except at night.

  31. It is of no use to teach them to ventilate by lowering windows from the top.

  32. He was considering the situation, and quietly letting his companions ventilate their views before offering his.

  33. Before midday the occupation of the morning was completed, and after a hearty meal the company gathered aft to pass away the time and talk over the past as well as to ventilate the prospects for the future.

  34. Many people, while apparently taking in sufficient air to supply their need for oxygen, do not breathe deeply enough to "freely ventilate the lungs.

  35. To ventilate a room successfully the problem of preventing drafts must be considered along with that of admitting the fresh air.

  36. If the wind is blowing, ventilate principally on the sheltered side of the house.

  37. I then exacted a solemn promise from him that he never would buy another penny's worth of the poison, gave him some change to purchase a bountiful meal, and left with a determination to ventilate street candy stands.

  38. In this chapter I propose to ventilate them in a manner never before attempted, and the expose may be relied upon as correct in every particular.

  39. We regret our want of space to ventilate tobacco more thoroughly.

  40. To guard against the bad effects of sewer air, it is necessary to dilute, change, and ventilate the air in sewers.

  41. This is accomplished by the various openings left in the sewers, the so-called lamp and manholes which ventilate by diluting the sewer air with the street air.

  42. The purpose of vent pipes, we have seen, is to prevent siphoning of traps and to ventilate the air in the traps and pipes.

  43. Vent Pipes are the special pipes to which the traps or fixtures are connected by short-branch vent pipes, and serve to ventilate the air in the pipes, and prevent siphonage.

  44. Ventilate carefully and do not damp down.

  45. Ventilate carefully and close all the houses before sunset.

  46. A few air-bricks connecting the inside by a hollow flue formed in the wall, with its outlet as far as possible from the inlet, should be sufficient to ventilate any strong-vault.

  47. During bright days the hotbed will heat very quickly from the sunshine on the glass and it will be necessary to ventilate during the early morning by slightly raising the sash on the opposite side from the wind.

  48. The rule to be followed is to ventilate on the side away from the wind, so that the wind will blow over the opening and not into the bed.

  49. Thy guardian angel (I speak it in humility) could not ventilate thee better.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ventilate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerate; agitate; air; analyze; argue; breathe; broach; canvass; chill; confide; consider; controvert; cool; debate; declare; deliberate; discourse; discuss; display; divulge; examine; expose; express; fan; freshen; fumigate; give; handle; ice; introduce; investigate; moot; proclaim; publish; put; rap; reason; refresh; refrigerate; reveal; review; sift; state; study; talk; tell; treat; utter; vent; ventilate; wind; winnow