the open air
noun
: a location not in a building : the outdoors
He hung his clothes out to dry in the open air.
Examples of the open air in a Sentence
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It is located in the open air near the main pool and beach entrance and is equipped with a sushi bar and live music most nights.
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Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
Or, embrace the open air at the Skyline Wilderness Park or Sugarloaf Ridge State Park.
—Kara Peeler, Sunset Magazine, 21 May 2024
Other vehicles lined up in the open air include tanks, armored personnel carriers, and suchlike made in countries ranging from Britain to Turkey to Australia.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
Regard opening ceremony, as well as at the open air Cinéma de la Plage free of charge for the public on May 15.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Read: Eight books that will take you somewhere new
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
This novel, set in the closing decades of the 19th century and suffused with the wide-open lushness of the Nebraska prairie, practically demands to be read in the open air.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
The scientists wanted to see whether the machine that took years to create could consistently spray the right size salt aerosols through the open air, outside of a lab.
—Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Sometimes used for the prows of ships, Cor-Ten is weathering steel, protected from corrosion, that changes color in the open air.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The channel, which begins in East Jerusalem, carries the sewage of almost 300,000 people underground and then in the open air, sickening those who live nearby.
—Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
Or, embrace the open air at the Skyline Wilderness Park or Sugarloaf Ridge State Park.
—Kara Peeler, Sunset Magazine, 21 May 2024
Other vehicles lined up in the open air include tanks, armored personnel carriers, and suchlike made in countries ranging from Britain to Turkey to Australia.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
Regard opening ceremony, as well as at the open air Cinéma de la Plage free of charge for the public on May 15.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Read: Eight books that will take you somewhere new
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
This novel, set in the closing decades of the 19th century and suffused with the wide-open lushness of the Nebraska prairie, practically demands to be read in the open air.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
The scientists wanted to see whether the machine that took years to create could consistently spray the right size salt aerosols through the open air, outside of a lab.
—Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Sometimes used for the prows of ships, Cor-Ten is weathering steel, protected from corrosion, that changes color in the open air.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The channel, which begins in East Jerusalem, carries the sewage of almost 300,000 people underground and then in the open air, sickening those who live nearby.
—Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
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