How to Use the open air in a Sentence

the open air

noun
  • The other side is where holes No. 12 and No. 13 are seen through the open air of the suites.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • But that’s not always a rosy picture of hens scrambling in the open air.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2024
  • The festival took place in the open air, surrounded by rocks and rivers, grape fields, and farms.
    Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Cow waste piles that sit in the open air, under the baking sun, hardly emit the greenhouse gas.
    The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There is also nowhere in the city to test nuclear weapons or fire machine guns in the open air.
    Curbed, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The coolant gives up its heat to the open air, given the right difference in temperature.
    Charles Q. Choi, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • On a cruise to Alaska around 2018, Sarge Marcum took advantage of the open air in the Yukon, running around in streams and chasing fish.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Many have spent almost two weeks in the open air, sometimes braving freezing weather.
    Nimet Kirac, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 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
  • Regard opening ceremony, as well as at the open air Cinéma de la Plage free of charge for the public on May 15.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The scientists wanted to see whether the machine that took years to create could consistently spray the right size salt aerosols through the open air, outside of a lab.
    Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But the video, shot in the open air as Kyiv was under attack, was also a recovery of the meaning of freedom of speech, which has been forgotten.
    Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This gave way to the dramatic opening of the room’s ceiling, giving new meaning to the venue’s name, the Hall of Stars, as the party carried on in the open air and a fireworks show erupted in the bay.
    Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
  • After tentatively looking around, the bear paws out into the sunlight and enjoys the open air.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Where to dine and drink Head to Bjork to try northern Norway's traditional dish of stockfish (cod that's been dried in the open air on giant wooden racks).
    Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 16 July 2024
  • Sometimes used for the prows of ships, Cor-Ten is weathering steel, protected from corrosion, that changes color in the open air.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The music blasting in the open air provoked me and others to dance, bringing back my own happy feelings from decades earlier.
    Wendy S. Walters, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2023
  • Attached to the center rafter, now exposed to the open air, was a deflated, blue party balloon: a relic of the memories that were so often made there.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
  • His destination was a white metal chair at the end of the open air corridor, looking east toward the Rincon Mountains.
    Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
  • With sport sandal-style water shoes, which typically expose the upper parts of your feet and toes to the open air, drainage is almost instantaneous.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
  • Summer is prime time for doing as much outside as possible, from barbecues to bonfires to hiking or exercising in the open air.
    Korin Miller, Flow Space, 4 July 2024
  • Many also depict Franklin performing the experiment in the open air rather than taking shelter to avoid electrocution.
    Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
  • Families are welcome, and little ones are catered for in the kids’ club, which favors activities in the open air over technological distractions.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Other vehicles lined up in the open air include tanks, armored personnel carriers, and suchlike made in countries ranging from Britain to Turkey to Australia.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
  • This month, a new front in their battle opened as activists accused Holtec of improperly evaporating the waste water and releasing the resulting radioactive vapor into the open air.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023

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