Sentence examples for vent from inspiring English sources
The word 'vent' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it as a noun (e.g., "The air vent in the wall was clogged with dust.") or as a verb (e.g., "She vented her frustrations to her best friend.").
Barbara recalls storming into an Irish pub in Munich in 1994 to vent her anger, and the altercation with a group of IRA sympathisers drinking there.
It's actually more of a stress reliever than a game: the aim is to vent your frustration by hammering furiously on the tabletop before tipping the whole thing over in a rage.
The shock move brought chaotic scenes to parts of the capital and disgruntled travellers took to social media to vent their anger at Network Rail, which found itself trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons.
Although marriage is no more than a mystical word, adding no new rights, fighting over that word lets homophobes again vent abhorrence at the modern world and all its filth.
Trainer Jesus Ramos, gun on hip, says an irate citizen is not lodging a "personal attack", and advises responding with "you seem upset" to defuse the situation and allow them to vent.
Holloway also explained why he had avoided standing in the home technical area: "I felt if I went out there, the fans would vent their spleen on me and that would not benefit the team".
Multicultural policies emerged in the 1980s largely in response to the anger within minority communities created by racism, an anger that found an explosive vent in the inner-city riots of the late 1970s and 80s.
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