How to Use unventilated in a Sentence

unventilated

adjective
  • First, avoid placing flowers in small, unventilated rooms, and don’t keep them in your bedroom.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The cells were frequently cramped, dark, unventilated, and damp.
    — Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
  • The garage was determined to be unventilated and no food or clean water was visible.
    — cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • Masks don’t do much good if people spend several hours together in an unventilated room.
    — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mold, fungi, bugs, and other pests can nest happily in storage units, unventilated homes, and more.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022
  • Mold, fungi, bugs, and other pests can nest happily in storage units, unventilated homes, and more.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Police found three girls, between 11 and 14, in a makeshift room in the unventilated trailer.
    — Felicia Fonseca, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At least 150 people died of hypothermia or carbon monoxide poisoning from unventilated generators.
    — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • In 1985, an explosion in the basement of a Ross department store—caused by an unventilated buildup of methane gas underneath the store—razed several city blocks and injured twenty-three people.
    — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Mosquitoes love the dark, humid, and unventilated spaces so often inhabited by India’s poorest residents, said Dhiman.
    — Monika Mondal, WIRED, 15 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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