Airless

We’ve turned revelation into drudgery, shut ourselves in airless rooms, and covered over the windows. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are also some interesting and original new maps, such as airless moons and other planetary environments. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

In his much-discussed Introduction to Best American Short Stories 2007, Stephen King complained about reading lots of stories that felt "airless". ❋ Unknown (2008)

The plastic chairs lining the perimeter of the musty, airless room eventually fill as twenty-two girls and their two facilitators, one of whom is Elena Martínez, the parish receptionist, wander in. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Once in that airless section of the room, Ali realized how much Brenda reeked of booze—not just what she was drinking now but what she had most likely been imbibing for the past weeks and months. ❋ J.A. Jance (2011)

After this dull, airless misfire, which is a failure on almost every level, it's no wonder that Craven again journeyed back into the Weinstein pit see or don't: Cursed for Scream 4. ❋ Scott Mendelson (2011)

We are going to ride shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee, in an airless minivan packed with strangers, for at least an hour in traffic. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

Only later did I learn that both Borgonie and Derek Litthauer, a rugged and experienced professor and mine diver from Bloemfontein, have on occasion been evacuated from an especially hot or airless tunnel and sent back to the surface. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A heavy, airless stench alerts the approaching visitor of endless litters of whimpering little puppies; walls of cooped-up chickens, roosters, and baby chicks; squawking parrots, caged goats, and snakes; frogs and fish. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

So painfully over-written, airless and devoid of any shred of human emotion it makes me long for the old-time charms of 30 Seconds to Mars. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sick of undressing at airport security lines, cramming next to strangers during long, airless flights where not even peanuts are free anymore? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Full, exhausted, overwhelmed, I settle into my room, a cool, airless cube at the end of the ground-floor driveway. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And to me, a plot that's "airtight," his preferred sort, makes a fiction airless - little more than an argument, as you suggest, and, worse, an argument of the sort in an advice column, or a politician's speech. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We spend most of our time in an airless booth arguing with each other," said Mr. Abumrad, 37, who seemed in awe that several hundred people would stay seated for two hours. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

I'm not inclined to get into any airless metal tubes filled with people right now either. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kid 1: [Come on], [you can do better] Kid 2: I'm trying Kid 1: What are you, an [airless plastic] ❋ Teacherthatdonthelp (2021)

[Jonh]: "Hey, my birthday coming up, you have any plans for me Mark?" Mark: "Yeah, I'll airless [bake you a cake], or something" Jonh: "[Airless baking]? Now that's something new" ❋ LegendOfNothing (2021)