unventilated
adjective
un·ven·ti·lat·ed
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Definition of unventilated
: not ventilated
a stuffy, unventilated office
Examples of unventilated in a Sentence
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Juliette shows me her kitchen, a low hut adjacent to the house, and squats down to add more wood to the fire under a big stew pot, coughing and squinting to show me how uncomfortable and smoky the unventilated space was. — The Economist, "The murky world of Madagascar’s roaring vanilla trade," 5 July 2019 The work put them at risk for exposure to illness that might come from doing dusty, repetitive work in small, unventilated tenement spaces. — Angela Serratore, Smithsonian, "Keeping Feathers Off Hats–And On Birds," 15 May 2018 Something as ordinary as flipping a light switch or plugging in a phone charger can ignite the heavy gas, which quickly fills an unventilated room. — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, "Big profits and marijuana surplus fuel illegal butane hash oil labs," 26 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unventilated.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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