How to Use the open air in a Sentence

the open air

noun
  • Many had been there for days, sleeping on the ground in the open air.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The sun was out, and no one counted the seconds in the open air.
    — Marin Wolf — Boston Globe, STAT, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Patrons will pull up a stool and enjoy a cocktail in the open air.
    — Michael Deeds may 7, Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2026
  • But that’s not always a rosy picture of hens scrambling in the open air.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2024
  • Britain has long been a haven for hikers, amblers, and fans of a brisk stroll in the open air.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Now, think about what happens if mothballs are used in the garden, out in the open air.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 9 May 2026
  • Now, think about what happens if mothballs are used in the garden, out in the open air.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 9 May 2026
  • The smell of the dead mussels, even in the open air, was overpowering.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • There is also nowhere in the city to test nuclear weapons or fire machine guns in the open air.
    — Curbed, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But rigged high above the ground, highlining involves falls into the open air.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 18 Nov. 2025
  • For safe transport, place gas containers in the open air, such as a truck bed or trailer.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2024
  • For safe transport, place gas containers in the open air, such as a truck bed or trailer.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Cow waste piles that sit in the open air, under the baking sun, hardly emit the greenhouse gas.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The festival took place in the open air, surrounded by rocks and rivers, grape fields, and farms.
    — Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Many had been in the open air for more than a week, with no food or basic services in the sweltering heat.
    — Samy Magdy, ajc, 2 May 2023
  • Temperature stays more stable than the open air.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Many have spent almost two weeks in the open air, sometimes braving freezing weather.
    — Nimet Kirac, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Once in the open air, the 16 year old was turned over to medical personnel.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • It is located in the open air near the main pool and beach entrance and is equipped with a sushi bar and live music most nights.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
  • It’s designed to swirl the wine with ease, which is crucial since the taste and smell of red wine benefit from the open air.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • It’s designed to swirl the wine with ease, which is crucial since the taste and smell of red wine benefit from the open air.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • It’s designed to swirl the wine with ease, which is crucial since the taste and smell of red wine benefit from the open air.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • From spring to autumn, terraces and cafés spill into the open air, and the pace of life softens as evenings stretch long and warm.
    — Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The coolant gives up its heat to the open air, given the right difference in temperature.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024
  • Peppers hung from the balcony, homemade merguez sausages dried in the open air, trays of caraway seeds were left in the sun to toast.
    — Boutheina Ben Salem, Vogue, 8 May 2026
  • His clothes can still be seen hanging — now exposed in the open air behind the portion of the building that crumbled.
    — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • If fish have gills to extrapolate oxygen from the water even at depth, how do mudskippers breathe in the open air?
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • And over half of the plastic waste that goes unmanaged is burned in the open air, worsening air quality in many parts of the world.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Like a trapdoor, the idea swings open to reveal a fantasy too fragile and nostalgic to be taken in the open air.
    — Zoe Hu, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Allie raced to her window, opened it the rest of the way, and started to crawl through, intending to fling herself out into the open air.
    — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024

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