ventilate
verb (used with object)
to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
was ventilating
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past progressiveof ventilate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The nurse was ventilating me as Dana was trying to get the car up the driveway.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was dinnertime one December night in 1959, and the patriarch of the clan was ventilating one of his favorite complaints.
From Time Magazine Archive
