Let off steam, literally or figuratively

Usage examples of vented.

With greater gravity it could have held onto the gases its volcanoes vented, prevented its water vapor from escaping into vacuum.

The methane-oxygen burn made carbon dioxide, which the engine vented, and pure water.

Like SCUBA gear, their suits vented exhaled gases at the back of the neck, mostly oxygen and nitrogen with some carbon dioxide.

The combatants being now prevented from executing present vengeance on each other, betook themselves to the common resources of disappointed rage, and vented their wrath in threats and defiance.

When he had in this manner vented the first emotions of passion, he began to come a little to himself.

After the first gust of her passion was a little over, which she declared, if she had not vented, would have burst her, she proceeded to inform Mr.

The SII suit immediately vented the acidic fluid as his stomach spasmed.

Coolant fluid vented out of a tear in the casing, hidden somewhere in the deep shadows on the side away from the sun, the fountain fluorescing grey-blue as it jetted out from behind the ship.

The fourth shell buried itself in the ashes and blackened timber of the burned barracks and vented those relics up and out as it coughed its dark explosion.

The cabinet itself seemed to fold upward into a hood, like a metal tipi, that, Father John figured, vented fumes from the bottled solvents to the outside.

In the end, it was part of the game that Sidney should tumble down upon Dyke, whereat he invariably vented a great bellow as if in pain, declaring that his ribs were broken.

Before he could witness the result, the creature holding him vented a bestial roar and hurled him to the hard ground.

If the doll vented too loud a sound, however, he at once stopped working, distressed and vexed with himself, and turning towards Jeanne to see if he had roused her.

The next instant, however, there was a distinct snap, reminding him of the sound made when someone broke a dry branch in half, and Scott vented a bloodcurdling scream.

It stopped, threw back its head and vented the frightening cry a third time.