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  • adjective comparative form of airy: more airy

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Examples

  • Crews have already begun hacking through walls and peeling off ceilings to create an airier, more open space.

    New School Sets Agenda Sophia Hollander 2011

  • Airy, but Potent Apple's design wizards have made the new iPad feel much airier.

    iPad 2: Thin, Not Picture Perfect Walter S. Mossberg 2011

  • The airier, multiroom installation at Gagosian comprises 13 huge works from 2009-2011, one of which, nearly 20 feet tall, shoots upward like a geyser.

    Crushed and Brushed Lance Esplund 2011

  • Spring, one of the most coveted tables in Paris since 2006, has moved to an airier space, with its acclaimed American chef, Daniel Rose, presiding over an open kitchen upstairs and a casual food-and-wine bar below.

    Paris: Modern Romance Tina Isaac 2011

  • The browser announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, was a bit airier.

    Research In Motion Adds BES Express, New Browser « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010

  • Not sure the crust is exactly puff pastry, but at least approximately and the custard is sometimes more creamy (airier) but this is exactly how it looks.

    Vanilla Slice | Baking Bites 2009

  • Some galleries—though airier, better lit and more picture-friendly—are slightly smaller and constricted, as if the walls are encroaching.

    Modernizing the Academy Lance Esplund 2011

  • By removing walls, and moving shelving away from windows, the library feels airier and lighter.

    Georgetown Library to reopen Philip Kennicott 2010

  • It sounds like an Oasis dirge only with airier vocals.

    Sunbirds (No 810) 2010

  • Davies tried his best to rattle Mandy but to no avail: Mandelson's light, superior voice merely became airier and loftier as he explained to Davies how his book didn't make New Labour look like a great project undone by the pathetic, all-consuming, never-ending row between Blair and Brown, but instead painted a "reasonably pleasing picture".

    Today; Live Aid 25; London: Just Off the Plane 2010

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