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airy
adjective as in open to the atmosphere
adjective as in delicate or ethereal
adjective as in buoyant, light, or lively in nature
Example Sentences
He laments labor exploitation and the ongoing production of poverty, and he does so at first in ways that in another kind of book would lead to leaden axioms or airy theories.
In the summer drying season, the flats still teem with laborers harvesting salt manually, but there is now a large, airy plant where salt is washed, ground, and iodized in huge metal vats.
It had an “airy crunch with a classic appeal,” that “would hold up to milk, which is nice.”
It’s not as light and airy as the Columbia, but with its polyester and nearly as many pores as the Strata, it breathed well.
That’s where you’re just getting this massive amount of these light, airy aerosols that can just float in the air.
Her delivery—airy and a little tepid—is familiar from her long-running reality series.
A gorgeous, glistening rendition of “Lost Cause” came next, and the airy Morning Phase standout “Blue Moon” ended the sequence.
An airy acoustic guitar begins to strum; a synthesized orchestra begins to swell.
It was this combination of elusive, airy wit, and easy charm—and her passion for me—that was my lifeline.
Her work covers the walls of her airy and cluttered Venice studio.
I have seen the Indians of Bon-Airy do it, and have myself tried the experiment.
They enclosed him within their circle, and their light and airy forms sped swiftly about him.
It was big and cool and airy, in spite of the fact that supper preparations were going on at one end of it.
Mount Airy is built of brown stone and trimmed with light stone furnishing a colorful contrast.
The theme had changed—light, airy, sparkling, it reminded the girls of fairies dancing on the grass in the moonlight.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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