ventilates
- present tense form of ventilate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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As we followed a trail through waist-high grass, the sun was hot and a ridge blocked the breeze, the steady trade wind that reliably ventilates the Caribbean.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2015
The mastoid portion of the temporal bone, which can be felt as a bump in the skull behind the pinna, also contains air, which ventilates through the middle ear.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Like a healer, he helps us to come to terms with the miseries he ventilates on our behalf.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2010
And when their various pathologies grow suffocating, the director of photography, Michael Hardwick, ventilates the movie with pure Alaskan light and scrubbed, cerulean skies.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2010
Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine; Brightens, for ornament; and whets, for use.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
