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Answer for the clue "Allowing some ventilation, say ", 4 letters:
ajar

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Usage examples of ajar.

Pennyworth told me how Avis listened behind that door on my first visit here, and I saw this time that it stood ajar.

Beaten haggard, he stood cloakless in his travel-stained leathers, while draught from the door left ajar at his back flared and harried the stubs of the candles.

And in the end I went, wet, hatless, and dazed in the morning light, and entered that awful door in Benefit Street which I had left ajar, and which still swung cryptically in full sight of the early householders to whom I dared not speak.

The chest had been abandoned among others in a dim storeroom, but the door of the room was ajar, admitting a streak of cyanic light.

Finding the door ajar, he rapped on it with his knuckles and pushed through to discover Ebby sitting with his feet propped up on the sill.

I therefore managed to tell Bettina that I would leave ajar the door of my room, and that I would wait for her as soon as everyone in the house had gone to bed.

Jeremid beckoned, and when they got to him, Kittul Kendersson stood with the door ajar.

Afraid to look, but knowing she had to, Merissa swung open all the cabinet doors, leaving them ajar so that Cagan could share the sight of her meager findings.

I avoided him by dodging into the oilery by a side door which happened to stand ajar.

For once contact has been made, once the door to the other world has been set ajar, a host of waiting intelligences may crowd through.

Under the gaze of a weedy youth with his mouth permanently ajar, they sat down on three wooden chairs and Smithers, taking the initiative, asked the chemist to remember whether he had ever seen Victoria before.

There was a velodrome of parquet-floor between them and, as if I was expected, one of the doors was ajar.

He glanced once at the door still ajar behind him, fair and young and uneasy, his riding gloves wrung between tortured hands.

Faint sounds of drawers opening and closing came from the bedroom door that Sandra Munter left ajar.

De Biasi had given me a huge Panettone, biscuits, jars of anchovies, a bottle of olive oil, ajar of pesto.