Sentence examples for aerate from inspiring English sources
The word "aerate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to mean to cause (something, such as soil or water) to have air move through it or to supply (something) with air. For example: The farmer aerated the soil in the fields to promote better crop growth.
verb
To supply oxygen or air.
Then aerate what is left with an aquarium bubbler to drive off the last traces of moisture.
This was as self-defeating as it was imbecilic the Tories' main problem being a whiff of toxicity that the moderate Mr Cameron has failed to aerate away.
Breathing roots help aerate waterlogged soils.
Mechanical draining, using tractor-drawn plows to create deep open drains and so aerate the soil, is now usual on the peaty swamps of Europe, especially in Finland.
Mechanical composting systems employ one or more closed tanks or digesters equipped with rotating vanes that mix and aerate the shredded waste.
There's no point trying to aerate a new fire if the bottom is all blocked with ash.
Either way, Matthew Wilson got the unlikely task of supplying sexual tension by teaching Lynda to aerate the lawn with "a little wiggle" and Eric Robson acted himself drinking tea with stolid conviction.
Earthworms aerate the soil, promote drainage, and draw organic material into their burrow.
Other than infusing the celery sticks, and a tense moment when my husband upended a bottle of Barolo into the blender to hyper-aerate it (a trick from the book that worked nicely on the very closed, tight wine), all of the modernist techniques happened earlier, offstage.
Chills and aerates ice-cream custards and sorbet syrups.
She does do an awful lot of that blushing "Ooh, Sir Alan" blarney, but it's impossible to get aerated about it because she overdoes it so much.
