air-bound

[ air-bound ]

adjective

1. stopped up by air.

Word History and Origins

Origin of air-bound¹

First recorded in 1910–15; air ¹ + -bound ¹

Example Sentences

She was an air-bound blur of black, her mouth wide open, joy in her eyes.

From New York Times

Ultrasound promises to move interaction from the flat and physical to the three dimensional and air-bound.

From Reuters

She remembered, three months earlier, the night before a statewide meet at Air-Bound, when Jim Furfaro and her husband, Alan, had to set up the fiberglass springs under the mat.

From Literature

Late in the fall, Jackie Furfaro drove her daughter Stephanie to gymnastics practice at Air-Bound, the gym on Main Street in Logan.

From Literature

And for all its careful avoidance of the tropes of the spectacle, it also manages to achieve an eye-popping amount of bravura theatricality, replete with song, rich movement and, in one gut-wrenching moment, an air-bound re-creation of the most awful moment of combat.

From Chicago Tribune