Stuffy unventilated rooms. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It often occurs in unventilated tenements on stifling nights. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
No windows, unventilated, oppressively hot, a setting for intimidation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2003] Reference
Others attribute it to the close unventilated hats commonly worn by men. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
All new, unused and unventilated travel trailers have formaldehyde in them. From Wordnik.com. [Formaldehyde and travel trailers] Reference
Night air is not as objectionable as the confined air of unventilated rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference
That blas was triggered by an accumulation of gas in an unventilated tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [At Least 74 Dead in China Mine Blast] Reference
Both bathrooms and the fancy range hood are vented into the unventilated attic. From Wordnik.com. [In which our rose-colored glasses are torn off, stomped upon, and smashed into tiny little pieces.] Reference
I met him in an unventilated interrogation room that smelled of bleach and paint. From Wordnik.com. [After Iraq] Reference
Someone told animal services that dogs were being kept locked in an unventilated shed. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County animal watch] Reference
"I don't believe that Alcatrante knew that this place was unventilated," she remarked at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Approximately this amount could kill 500 people, if delivered correctly in an unventilated room. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2008] Reference
Young Mr Estate Agent hurries us past the windowless, unventilated bathroom and its odour of damp. From Wordnik.com. [flat hunting] Reference
You may recall they were found packed inside his unventilated tractor trailer back in May of 2003. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference
Nineteen illegal immigrants were killed when they were crammed into an unventilated tracer trailer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2004] Reference
Thirty detainees were held in an unlit, unventilated cell roughly six feet wide by twenty feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia: Hun Sen and the 1997 Coup] Reference
However, if you broke five bulbs in a small unventilated room then you might be in short term danger. From Wordnik.com. [2008 January 05 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
He slept in small, unventilated hovels, a dozen other persons often dividing with him the scanty space. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
Doing hard work in an unventilated cisterna would soon deplete the oxygen content of the atmosphere in it. From Wordnik.com. [Working in enclosed spaces, a terrible tragedy] Reference
We sized and sorted the clothing in the hot unventilated upstairs storage rooms of our operations building. From Wordnik.com. [Fisher, Donald E.] Reference
These measurements assume a hypothetical unventilated room, not a standard home, according to Llope's study. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Radon] Reference
In small unventilated spaces like a closed room or a jet cockpit, the fumes can accumulate to harmful levels. From Wordnik.com. [In Israel, a Health Threat in a Fighter Jet - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
In the first American prisons, inmates were confined in crowded, dark, unventilated, filthy, windowless rooms. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
(These measurements assume a hypothetical unventilated room, not a standard home, according to Llope's study.). From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Radon] Reference
My condition is the result of insecticide sprayed monthly and weekly for years in a closed, unventilated office. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair…] Reference
It is agreed by all persons who have investigated the subject, that unventilated stable air is injurious to animals. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
They were rented out for fifteen or twenty dollars a month (600 or 700 baht), barren, hot, and unventilated as an attic. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
I was starting to be seriously worried about you, and this is for Daniel you are dreaming of the hot, unventilated badminton gym. From Wordnik.com. [Beth is no longer a human Crock-Pot, normal programming to resume!] Reference
When that loved one has been hanging by the neck for two days in a warm and unventilated room, the sight would be truly horrifying. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest] Reference
I heard a consumptive say that he left a sanatorium for a day class after trying for three nights to sleep in an unventilated ward. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
An atmosphere confined about a house by too dense foliage is, like the air of an unventilated room, not fit for practical purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
It was a narrow, ill-lighted, unventilated apartment, bitter with the after-taste of taxes, prophetically flavorous of taxes yet to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Nineteen people suffocated in the back of an unventilated tractor-trailer last year as they tried to cross the border near Victoria, Texas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2004] Reference
To be sure, the day was warm and the house was unventilated. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
She worked in "an unventilated vault, about the size of a double garage". From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
The children are no longer crowded together in small, unventilated rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian] Reference
Science has not yet decided which is the more fatal, decayed vegetables or unventilated rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
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