Sentence examples for hold air from inspiring English sources

Porosity reflects the capacity of soil to hold air and water, and permeability describes the ease of transport of fluids and their dissolved components.

Cold butter's ability to hold air is vital to creating what pastry chefs call structure — the framework of flour, butter, sugar, eggs and leavening that makes up most baked goods.

And it used to be normal for children to stay out of the water in the summer for fear of polio; for schools to hold air raid drills for fear of a nuclear holocaust; and for civilian patrols to watch the skies for Nazi airplanes.

This massive facility has four exhibition halls nearly large enough to hold air shows within.

It didn't hold air as well, but it still sustained a sizable pressure surge for roughly a fifth of a second.

And if you're hit in the lungs and they can't hold air, you suffocate to death.

The Seattle Sling is zipper-free with a sealed dry bag that is proven to hold air-tight even when fully submerged in water.

There is a man standing by one of the fires and facing the boat, with his arms still taut, as if holding the body — except he is holding air.

The corpus has vanished from the most corporeal of our rituals — and we are left standing with our hands outstretched and taut but with no counterweight to bear, like the man on the riverbank holding air.

(Privately held Air Evac, in West Plains, Mo., which mainly serves rural areas in 14 states, is next in line, with 9%.) In the last 12 months Air Methods netted $26 million on $506 million in revenue.

The strongest pieces of evidence for this hypothesis, Geisler explains, are cavities at the base of the snout and on top of the skull that probably held air sinuses.