How to Use unventilated in a Sentence

unventilated

adjective

• Three of the women who moved in told The Times the units Mr. Rivera rented to them were cramped, unventilated and filled with mold.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Police found three girls, between 11 and 14, in a makeshift room in the unventilated trailer.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2022
• First, avoid placing flowers in small, unventilated rooms, and don’t keep them in your bedroom.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• The primary way that the virus is spread is through inhalation of tiny virus-carrying droplets in the air in unventilated spaces.
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2021
• Juliette shows me her kitchen, a low hut adjacent to the house, and squats down to add more wood to the fire under a big stew pot, coughing and squinting to show me how uncomfortable and smoky the unventilated space was.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• The garage was determined to be unventilated and no food or clean water was visible.
  — cleveland, 21 July 2022
• No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2021
• And don’t be in a hurry to pack yourself onto a crowded, unventilated jetway.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• Mold, fungi, bugs, and other pests can nest happily in storage units, unventilated homes, and more.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022
• That means any protracted stay in an unventilated indoor space, with other people, is risky even if patrons are spaced out.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2020
• Something as ordinary as flipping a light switch or plugging in a phone charger can ignite the heavy gas, which quickly fills an unventilated room.
  — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• The work put them at risk for exposure to illness that might come from doing dusty, repetitive work in small, unventilated tenement spaces.
  — Angela Serratore, Smithsonian, 15 May 2018
• Masks don’t do much good if people spend several hours together in an unventilated room.
  — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2020
• Also Tuesday, the Commissioners Court received an update on the local response to the June 27 discovery of dozens of people who died in an unventilated trailer.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 12 July 2022
• Even at one of the Osaka clubs where the outbreak occurred earlier this month, a group of 40 young women attended a performance by a boy band on Wednesday, jumping and waving their hands in a small, unventilated space for close to two hours.
  — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• Florida officers freed seven dogs from an unventilated storage unit and are looking for the person who padlocked them in, leaving some of them without food or even water.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Japanese experts quickly realized that the virus was airborne and that the best way to reduce its spread was to keep people from gathering in small, unventilated spaces or having close contact with others.
  — Ben Dooley, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022
• Japanese experts quickly realized the virus was airborne and that the best way to reduce its spread was to keep people from gathering in small, unventilated spaces or having close contact with others.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• He was sent to the provincial capital to receive an education – in an unventilated, crowded classroom with poor lighting.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2022
• Field workers are often left to sleep in plastic shipping containers or unventilated huts, The Associated Press reported, where the woman died.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
• The researchers then calculated what would happen in a situation where a person entered a small, unventilated space such as a restroom after an infected person coughed.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2020
• Be on the lookout for visible signs of unsanitary conditions, like dirty towels, moldy showers, people peeing in the pool, or muggy, unventilated workout spaces.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2014
• They are inundated daily with media and government leaders proclaiming the danger of being surrounded by tons of people in tight, unventilated spaces.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2020
• Other harmful gases, including carbon monoxide, can also be released by cooking with a gas stove, which can lead to some seriously deadly poisoning if unventilated.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• The steamy, unventilated space quickly becomes a pressure cooker of emotions, resentments, lusts and unspeakable traumas that ultimately converge in violence.
  — Beth Marchant, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Traditional holiday celebrations, with long meals indoors and with some travel typically involved, could contribute to more cases of the disease, which is primarily spread through droplets and aerosols that can linger in unventilated indoor spaces.
  — Josh Katz, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• Mosquitoes love the dark, humid, and unventilated spaces so often inhabited by India’s poorest residents, said Dhiman.
  — Monika Mondal, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2022
• Egyptian mummification, aimed at eternity, bears little resemblance to modern American embalming, which began during the Civil War, when bodies of soldiers had to be transported on hot, unventilated trains.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• At least 150 people died of hypothermia or carbon monoxide poisoning from unventilated generators.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 10 June 2021

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024