A dusty airless attic. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We’ve turned revelation into drudgery, shut ourselves in airless rooms, and covered over the windows. From Wordnik.com. [I Killed Literature « Gerry Canavan] Reference
There are also some interesting and original new maps, such as airless moons and other planetary environments. From Wordnik.com. [Wertzone Classics: Ground Control] Reference
In airless space, there was nothing to carry the sound. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
In the airless flask the proportion of yeast to sugar was. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
In three days the jet boat would become an airless shell. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of the Space Pirates] Reference
Under airless conditions much nitrate is permanently lost. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
A soil consisting only of rock particles tends to be airless. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Bessie was afraid he felt it so in this stuffy, airless street. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Pure clay is heavy, airless and a very poor medium for plant growth. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
She says that this villa has grown sunless, airless, and comfortless. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
The boy shook his head, gasped, and moved his lips in an airless, “No.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryerer] Reference
The heat was intense and every moment the tent seemed to grow more airless. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
In the center of an airless heap, anaerobic organisms immediately take over. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The "room" turns out to be a dark and airless storage space under the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Be Kinder To Your 'Kinder'] Reference
Surely mortal men never went through such awful, airless heat as this and lived. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
The fine saw dust from carpentry and cabinet work may compact and become airless. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The death mask of another potential relationship, pressed down with airless finality. From Wordnik.com. [Death Masking Love] Reference
Controlled messiness, we've discovered at last, is far preferable to airless perfection. From Wordnik.com. [It's Cool To Be Warm] Reference
Finally, a truly revolutionary airless tire and wheel system was shown at the Cooper exhibit. From Wordnik.com. [2008 SEMA Show: The tire industry feels the pinch of a soured economy] Reference
They live in crowded, airless quarters, and they're often docked for taking time to seek care. From Wordnik.com. [Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return] Reference
The helmets were fixed with radio, so we could have talked to each other even in airless space. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
On the surface of the planetoid, giant mushrooming clouds appeared climbing into the airless void. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
The ship hurtled up into airless space, where the blinding sunlight lay in sharp shadows on the rock. From Wordnik.com. [A World is Born] Reference
In the airless, bow-windowed room, upon the untidy sofa where he had left her, his wife was lying dead. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The brilliant orange of superheated rock had quickly cooled in the near-absolute zero of airless space. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
We were marched into an airless back room, which had little in it but an old desk and two folding chairs. From Wordnik.com. [That's It] Reference
The day that was soon to melt into evening had been sultry, the class-rooms airless, their tasks fatiguing. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Keeping their bedding damp is rarely the problem; preventing it from becoming waterlogged and airless can be. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
On the opposite side of the airless satellite, Roger and Astro were busy digging a hole in the hard surface. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
"And such airless satellites as the Moon will make the most desperate efforts to steal your atmosphere, too!". From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Clay soils on the other hand are heavy and airless, easily compacted, hard to work, and hard to keep workable. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The airless, lightless houses are most unsavoury, and in times of sickness and childbirth this is intensified. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
As far back as the 1940s, astronomers had begun to suspect that the Moon was, after all, not entirely airless. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Rich in minerals but low in nitrogen, they are generally slow to decompose and tend to pack into an airless mass. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Clumping forward through the airless corridor, he stopped to look into the compartment where he had left Brecken. From Wordnik.com. [This World Must Die!] Reference
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