Airy

//ˈɛə.ɹi//

"Airy" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Her head was full of airy thoughts.

The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.

Such abundance I accept apparent in this country, such top moral values, humans of such caliber, that I do not anticipate we would anytime beat this country, unless we breach the actual courage of this nation, which is her airy and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I adduce that we alter her old and age-old apprenticeship system, her culture, for if the Indians anticipate that all that is adopted and English is acceptable and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their built-in self-culture and they will become what we ambition them, an absolutely bedevilled nation.

A light, airy puff flows from this perfume.

She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.

A veil of pink chiffon, lavishly sprinkled with huge black dots, hung like a flounce from the hat brim to her shoulders and floated off in two airy streamers behind her.

This room is light and airy.

The kitchen is light and airy.

The library is light and airy.

The airy castle looked like a feudal fortress.

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an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies

an airy flight

It was a good solid house, fanless but airy.

an airy situation

Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!

Ah me, ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy’s room, my friends, since I have occupied it, than the ghost of my own childhood, the ghost of my own innocence, the ghost of my own airy belief.

One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.

The station has a bright and airy feel and the refurbishment works have provided a modern and inviting station environment for passengers.

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