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Example sentences for "ventilator"

Lexicographically close words:
venti; ventilate; ventilated; ventilating; ventilation; ventilators; venting; ventis; vento; ventorum
  1. After they have been in the oven about a quarter of an hour open the ventilator to slacken the heat and allow the steam to escape.

  2. In the centre of the top is a circular ventilator, through which steam, generated in baking, can escape, and the ventilator is covered by a domed plate, as large as the top of the oven.

  3. The new surgeon changed the medicines from sudorifics to bark and cordials; and a sail-ventilator being put up the gaol has been free from the fever almost ever since.

  4. One of the cases was that of an apprentice: "Some of the journeymen working in Newgate had forced him to go down into the great trunk of the ventilator in order to bring up a wig which one of them had thrown into it.

  5. It is circular like the early pithouses, but normally contains a fireplace, a deflector (to prevent the draft from fanning the fire too much), and a ventilator shaft by which to bring in the fresh air.

  6. There are remains of eight roof pilasters, a central fireplace, a deflector, and a ventilator shaft in the kiva.

  7. Richard Dodd's hands trembled as he clung to the ventilator bars.

  8. I want to get to that ventilator in the closet--you know it!

  9. I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Stoke Moran.

  10. He had ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most horrible cry to which I have ever listened.

  11. For example, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated with the outside air!

  12. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is.

  13. A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies.

  14. It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull.

  15. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed.

  16. Was it through this ventilator that the bags were let down?

  17. Don Luis took up his position near the ventilator and inspected the ground immediately around.

  18. And we found out last night that the depression was the result of dirt sifting into the ventilator shaft.

  19. The fact that the ventilator shaft at Stonehenge was choked with the debris of centuries when I first landed there shows how seldom this world was visited.

  20. He incited the occupants of the Long Dormitory to celebrate the end of work by a grand bolster fight, during the progress of which conflict a pillow was thrown through the ventilator above the door.

  21. The last and crowning achievement was the ventilator dodge.

  22. The ventilator was a square hole in the wall above the door, inclined toward the cell.

  23. It also differs from the ventilator in having a lateral branch likewise situated under the floor.

  24. The position of the ventilator opening is south by west; its depth 4 feet, and height 2 feet 6 inches.

  25. Where circumstances require the ventilator penetrates the rear portion of the pilaster, but the flue never enters the side of the kiva under a pilaster.

  26. The ventilator opens in the western wall.

  27. This passage, or tunnel, here designated a flue, communicates either directly with the outside or turns upward at a right angle and forms a small vertical ventilator which opens at the level of the plaza.

  28. The supposed functions of the flue, the vertical passage, and the ventilator have been discussed by several archeologists.

  29. Illustration: PLATE 27 PITCH BALLS AND VASE] It is evident that this ceremonial passage had nothing to do or at least had no connection with the ventilator and deflector of the kiva.

  30. Footnote 58: Nordenskioeld describes a ventilator constructed in the same way.

  31. The ventilator is built at one corner of the kiva wall.

  32. I put my ear to the door opening and listened at the space across the grid of the ventilator over my bunk.

  33. One tall wooden chimney-like shaft would have been a better ventilator than the three ventilating holes now there, which are covered over with an iron and glass grating.

  34. It is well supplied with window ventilators and doors, and in the ceiling in the middle of the cellar opens a tall shaft or chimney-like ventilator that passes straight up through the roof above.

  35. It never came into my head that anybody would ever have thought of the ventilator but myself!

  36. The Colonel at once got up and found that the ventilator was fast closed, so as not to admit a breath of air.

  37. But there was a ventilator above, which the old lady spied.

  38. The philosophical ventilator is often dreadfully teased by the inversion of all that he had [Page 389] planned, or the total failure of his apparatus.

  39. The little ventilator in the top, made to let out this steam, had been tied up in order to keep in all possible heat.

  40. Some traced it to a want of ventilation, and it is necessary to say that both the ponies who were ill stood next to the blubber stove; at any rate a big ventilator was fitted and more fresh air let in.

  41. Besides a big ventilator in the top of the hut there was an adjustable air inlet also at the base of the chamber which formed the junction of the two chimneys.

  42. His suit ventilator was whining under the terrific heat and his whole body was bathed in perspiration.

  43. His ventilator had quieted down once he got into the darkness, but now it started whining slightly again because he was sweating profusely.

  44. He lengthened his stride and rounded a turn by going right up on the wall, using a powerful leg thrust against a ventilator tube for momentum.

  45. Sweat poured from his forehead and the suit ventilator whined as it worked to pick up the extra moisture.

  46. He turned his belt ventilator control on full and the space suit puffed out.

  47. It was only a short time until the ventilator overloaded and burned out.

  48. With the aid of a portable furnace, a ventilator or set of bellows for continuous blast, and two wheelbarrows, M.

  49. The lackadaisical ventilator cowl, which took an occasional movement from stray puffs of air, added its voice now and then, whining and complaining like some lost yet inconsiderable soul.

  50. We have only to reach the ventilator to hear all that is going on in Bissell's room.

  51. Right, provided the ventilator in twenty-four is not closed.

  52. This car has a novel ventilator and ice box and is provided with a new form of non-conducting walls.

  53. They try to return to the house but the ventilator has been closed.

  54. The trustful flies fly through the ventilator into the garden.

  55. In the meantime I was devising another way to overcome that deadly ventilator shaft.

  56. Off and on, through all of yesterday, after the ventilator tragedy, there were noises beneath the cabin floor or deck.

  57. Sometimes, passing the mouth of one ventilator that is in the after wall of the chart-house, I can hear their plaintive squealing and crying from far beneath in the coal.

  58. Through the slits in the ventilator some man thrust a knife into the sacks of flour and cut them wide open from top to bottom.

  59. We covered the ventilator opening with our flour-device; the screams from below ceased as the victim was evidently dragged for'ard across the coal by his mates; and yet I confess to a miserable forenoon.

  60. The revolver continued to go off through the ventilator slits, and the bullets thudded into the front of the half wheel-house all about them.

  61. Some mutineer, crawling along the space between the coal and the deck of the lower hold, had climbed the ventilator shaft and was able to take aim through the slits between the bars.

  62. Some obscure sound from the ventilator must have attracted me, for I was gazing at it when the thing happened.


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