ventilating duct , also: vent duct

Let's get into the ventilating ducts now and worry about escape while we're out of sight.

An extremely sophisticated and powerful explosive device was removed from the ventilating duct.

In that story a poisonous snake had gotten into the famous locked room through a ventilating duct.

Or up in a metal ventilating duct.

Most of the kitchen, he said, can be in the cellar, which has high ceilings for ventilating ducts and is not subject to landmark regulation.

Fire and swirling smoke shot upward through the companionways and ventilating ducts.

In addition to the general noise of dinner, the music of a live pipe band was being transmitted through the ventilating ducts.

Bet huddled to the wall and tears finally came, then stopped as she noticed the corner had broken off the floor-level ventilating duct grill.

In poured clouds of dust, penetrating the structure through ventilating ducts, elevator shafts, stairwells and wall cavities.

There was still mud and oil sloshing around on G deck, and several times be banged his head against unexpected ladders and ventilating ducts.

Paranoids and their chicks appeared against the bright sky, from behind turrets, gables, ventilating ducts, and moved in on the eggplant sandwiches in the basket.

The Shimizu Construction Company of Tokyo, the world's fifth-largest construction company, has designed a computerized system that circulates odors through the ventilating ducts of buildings.

As Pias gave out two more blasters to members of the ship's crew, keeping the last one for himself, he watched the captain nod silent agreement and slip off into the ventilating duct with Yvette.

Kevin occupied the bottom bunk'and Delgado the top one, which only gave the East L.A. native just over three feet of clearance from a ceiling threaded with pipes, wires, hoses, and ventilating ducts.

He peered into this chamber and that to see how the conduits and ventilating ducts were arranged, and when he came to the last room in the sequence he was surprised and embarrassed to discover that it was in use.

Strong fans draw air from various extinct craters, force it through ventilating ducts into every room and recess of the city, and exhaust it into the shaft of a quiescent volcano, in whose gaseous outflow any trace of our activities is of course imperceptible.