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Stanford’s Jackson replies that the tenting was done only in large kitchens to aid in measuring the rate of gas release, and the team’s health risk assessments were based on measurements in open, untented kitchens.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 16, 2022
In spite of honey-and-gold weather, only 26,623 of Ebbets Field’s 32,500 seats were occupied, and there were wide, piebald patches of untented pews in left field.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
Lying out exposed on the untented ground, with only one blanket to cover with, we got soaking wet, and stayed so.
From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by William Meade Dame
In the midst of them was an untented cart drawn by oxen containing several women and children and a sick man.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
A camp untented after a downpour of rain is about as forlorn a sight as can be imagined, and it was such a spectacle as this that confronted the Norms on the bleakish early morning.
From The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills by Lillian Garis
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