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Meanings of airless in English

Lacking fresh air.

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Usage of airless in English
1
My limited experience with airless tires hasn't left me with good impressions.
Wired
2
Pitar had never forgotten his stifling days in that airless nursery school.
Edge of Infinity
3
In the center of an airless heap, anaerobic organisms immediately take over.
Organic Gardener's Composting
4
Bessie was afraid he felt it so in this stuffy, airless street.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
5
A slight breeze whipped past him, but it was hot and airless.
Love- from his point of view!
6
I had forgotten how hot the airless stairwells grew in the summer.
Cleopatra's Moon
7
Irina gulps air, now feeling winded and claustrophobic in the airless bathroom.
Real life & liars
8
We're as well off here as in one of those airless holes.
The forgotten soldier
9
He gasped as though he'd been drawn up from some airless deep.
Imajica: Complete Edition
10
Tucked down in the brownish green maze it was airless and hot.
Shadow men
11
When she caught my eye, she gave me an odd, airless smile.
The Girls
12
But he was stricken and airless, and Elena thought of his mother.
The lost recipe for happiness
13
But this arid, airless room was so awful-andit was Quinn's turf.
Roast mortem
14
What human ant-heaps, what histories, farces, tragedies played out in airless tenebrosity!
Without Prejudice
15
That giant room, an echoing warehouse, all of a sudden seemed airless.
The Irish Times
16
Stranger things we were presently to see, but that airless, star-dusted sky!
The First Men in the Moon
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United States of America
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