ventilate
verb (used with object)
to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
are ventilating
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present progressiveof ventilate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If you lose your primary heat source, use only safe alternate sources like a fireplace, wood stove or space heater and ensure they are ventilating properly.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
"G", "H", "I" and "J" are ventilating holes one inch in diameter and covered by a swinging slide so that the holes can be opened or closed as desired for regulating the ventilation.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
There are ventilating plants and electric lights, and in the citadel a motion picture theater.
From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Heywood Broun
Generals and colonels are ventilating their opinions through the press.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
In these piers there are ventilating openings branching at the top to each side of the parapet, with outlets provided with cast-iron screens.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway
