What is "air spaces"

Usage examples of "air spaces".

Enough volatile gas had collected in the few air spaces in the tank- to instantly create a secondary explosion far beyond any that the designers of the mine could have comprehended.

The ground quartz and glass prevented the violin from being eaten by woodworms-but it also filled in the air spaces and gave it a brilliance and clarity of tone.

Oil drums were filled with dynamite, with just enough air spaces to provide buoyancy, then sealed, painted dirty brown-the color of the channel water-and fes­.

He aimed the nozzle without fear and squirted the foamy green liquid into the farthest offshoot, making certain that no air spaces remained.

The enlarged air spaces in his lungs made a sound of their own, which was separate from his ragged breathing.

The field will compress your hair to your head, tightly, as the air spaces in it are squashed out.

I glanced into the two narrow air spaces between the little, two-room houses.

The old air spaces become insulation against the extremes of climate, making each succeeding layer more comfortable.

Slowly it filled up the air spaces between the sides of the drum and the bundle of machine pistols inside, slid noiselessly into every nook and cranny between the individual weapons, and impregnated the webbing and twine.

The houses would be of diamond-sawed stone, thick-walled, with dead-air spaces between the double walls to insulate against heat and cold.