Smoke, he explained, can drift into other apartments through ventilation systems.

"Let's put it this way, with a touch more moisture through ventilation I can make it snow in here."

Or it would enter the house through ventilation grills nestled in the eaves.

Other officials said tests of air filters showed that the poison lacked floating properties and had not circulated through ventilation systems.

Multicoloured smoke roiled into the roof beams to escape through ventilation slots.

Water was already flooding onto her deck, splashing through ventilation openings under her armor.

A third team explored ways to make the cabin cooler through ventilation, solar-reflective paints, and other heat reduction strategies.

They turned up shortly afterward, having found a way out through ventilation shafts that came out above ground under a portable toilet.

The lungs normally excrete the volatile fraction through ventilation, and acid accumulation does not occur.

Intensive piggeries control temperature through ventilation or drip water systems (dropping water to cool the system).

New standard features included a bumper impact system, automatic parking brake release, passenger assist straps and flow through ventilation system.

Although Rojer sent the tiny probe through ventilation ducts and up and down dark and empty corridors, 'nothing' was going on inside the hulk.

At full speed, or in heavy seas, water would flow over the ship's quarterdeck and often entered her messdecks and living quarters through ventilation shafts.

An IHF group who visited Kosovo in 1990 had the impression that the poison was emitted through ventilation pipes.

While Mr. Lindh was in the basement, Dostum's soldiers threw grenades through ventilation ducts, killing prisoners below.

Instead, these walls-some slick with condensation from the steam drifting through ventilation ducts-bore painted notices in the blocky dwarvish alphabet.

In automotive design terminology, the name breezeway has been used to describe the reverse-slanted, power-operated rear window ("backlite") which, when opened even slightly, provided through ventilation.

The hairs easily enter buildings through ventilation systems and accumulate in indoor environments because of their small size, which makes it difficult for them to be vented out.

The air-conditioner is a canvas-covered drum that would spin in a stream while a water-driven fan blew cooler air from inside the drum through ventilation tunnels.

In the style of a three-dimensional platform game, the player guides Faith over rooftops, across walls, and through ventilation shafts, negotiating obstacles using movements inspired by parkour.

Queenslanders all have this underfloor area that is used to cool the building through ventilation and also for protection of the main structure from termite attack and other pests.

It heard the noise of firing: laser fire, but it couldn't tell whereabouts the firing was because the noise came from ahead and behind and above, through ventilation outlets.

Through ventilation tubes, through doors, through transoms, the investigator went, seeking records, secrets- Never before had Magyans had so perfect an opportunity to learn every secret of Teff-el.

Why was it, she wondered, that in all the holonovels and two-dees of her youth, whenever the plucky young heroine had to clamber through ventilation shafts, she never seemed to get dirty?