airless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for airless
Adjective
  • That includes places like the unventilated garage that Murray moved into with his oldest son.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 2 July 2025
  • Officers there found three girls, 11 to 14, in an unventilated trailer after a passer-by noticed their fingers poking through slats in the door.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And with the team operating under the suffocating grip of new CBA, every dollar must work overtime.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • But Finch was unable to come up with any schematic answers for OKC’s suffocating defense or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s ruthlessness on offense.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • While many fragrance houses feel unapproachable—too old, too stuffy, too expensive—Tom Ford’s have a personableness to them.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 30 May 2025
  • Then again, the same could be said for all of MLB, which is considered stuffier than the NFL and NBA.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Moore sprinted down the field in celebration of his game-saving play with 29 seconds left that gave UCLA an unexpectedly breathless 27-20 victory.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Jerry Coyne has a post up which critiques an extremely breathless review of a new book, Epigenetics Revolution.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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