"It's all gone," he said in the cool afternoon air.

It was very quiet out here, the hot afternoon air thick and still.

The tip of one smashed a window, and stuck out into the afternoon air.

Outside, in the still afternoon air, he kept on laughing.

Or maybe it was the smell in the hot afternoon air.

She turned without waiting for an answer and walked out into the afternoon air.

There was a damp, almost tropical heat in the afternoon air.

But just as she was about to open the screen door Patrick's voice cut through the late afternoon air.

Then, before he could answer, she was gone in a rush of heated afternoon air.

He took a deep breath of the warm afternoon air, trying to clear his head.