unbreathable


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un·breath·a·ble

 (ŭn-brē′thə-bəl)
adj.
Not fit or suitable to be breathed: unbreathable exhaust fumes.
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unbreathable

(ʌnˈbriːðəbəl)
adj
not able to be breathed
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Indeed, each man consumes, in one hour, the oxygen contained in more than 176 pints of air, and this air, charged (as then) with a nearly equal quantity of carbonic acid, becomes unbreathable.
The air was unbreathable, thick, sticky, odious, like hot jelly in which all movements became difficult.
The worst part of working out in a Hijab is that the unbreathable material can soak up sweat and stick to you uncomfortably.
Will they use it to clan up the air that will again become unbreathable? Will it be used to cover the cost of hospital care for poisoned stomachs from contaminated food?
China is still considered to be a polluter and its city life is deplorable with unbreathable air and contaminated drinking water.
But rather than talk about how the air was virtually unbreathable for those of us unlucky enough to have asthma, everyone else is mindlessly crowing about how lovely the weather is.
If they do they have to carry oxygen cylinders with them because the air is simply unbreathable.
There are days when it is quite unbreathable, and respiratory diseases shoot up like pollution level indicators.
Claras aunts and uncles, her cousins, all the Shack-mans (Mounya's mother and sister are his only family here) have made the sweltering trip up from Brooklyn to New Rochelle with their car windows down so they could breathe, hair mussed and clothes rumpled by the air, which was unbreathable anyway, nauseatingly hot and muggy.