How to Use ventilate in a Sentence

ventilate

verb

• She opened the windows to ventilate the room.
• The room was adequately ventilated.
• Crews also cut holes in the roof of the garage to help ventilate the space, Scott said.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• The store's opening was delayed, and staffers tried to ventilate the store.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2021
• All four wheels house 9.4-inch disc brakes, and the fronts are ventilated.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
• Once the wigs are ventilated, or hand-tied, the hair is styled, then shipped out to the customer with a wig care booklet.
  — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2019
• The shaft was no longer ventilated, and gusts of hot vapor blew up from the tunnels.
  — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Firefighters cut holes in the roof to ventilate the flames and smoke to stop the fire from spreading throughout the building.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
• Firefighters cut holes in the roof to ventilate the flames and smoke and stop the fire from spreading throughout the building.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024
• There was no fire and the unit was ventilated by the Fire Department.
  — Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 May 2018
• The source of the leak was shut off and fire crews were ventilating the building as of Thursday afternoon.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
• The ladder crew's other job is to ventilate the building.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• Krzysztof said up to three-hour breaks are needed between the explosions to safely ventilate the air in the cave.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• Firefighters doused the blaze, which was contained to one room, then ventilated the large amount of smoke in the building.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Still, heated and ventilated front seats are standard on all but the base trim.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 1 Aug. 2023
• Seats were wide, firm, and supportive, heated front and rear, and ventilated in the front.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2019
• The fire was extinguished by 6:15 a.m. Firefighters could be seen on the roof of the building punching holes in the ceiling to ventilate the flames.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Window units are placed within a window frame and help ventilate and cool your home.
  — Theresa Holland, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2022
• The best advice is to address the source of indoor air pollution and ventilate your home.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Dec. 2018
• Choose a spot where your guests won’t have to encounter it; all the better, says Haden, if the location is well ventilated.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• Although Faust was able to ventilate the patient as planned, he was alarmed by the warnings of new shortages at a time acute cases of the virus were surging.
  — Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
• This huge push to ventilate more than one person on a single machine?
  — Scientific American, 22 May 2020
• These features stop air pollutants at the source and properly seal and ventilate the home, said the spokesperson.
  — Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2021
• In Loudoun, the main Trumpists’ tactic was to ventilate their grievances at school board meetings.
  — Max B. Sawicky, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• The Roman physician Galen observed that a hollow reed passed between the vocal cords, which sit above the trachea, could be used to ventilate the lungs of a dog.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 27 May 2020
• The device pulls blood out of the body to oxygenate and ventilate it, functioning like pulmonary bypass at the bedside.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• Thermosyphons are narrow tubes that passively pull heat from the ground and ventilate it up into the air—keeping the heat away from the permafrost.
  — Melody Schreiber, WIRED, 14 May 2018
• Firefighters cut through the roof and ceiling to ventilate the dwelling, Hernandez said.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2021
• The upper floors of buildings, which were harder to get to, hot, badly ventilated, and cramped, were the least desirable units, not unlike how the top stories of manor houses were where the household staff lived.
  — Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
• If water isn’t working, use isopropyl alcohol (IPA), but use it sparingly, and make sure your room is well ventilated.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024