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draughty

[ UK /dɹˈɑːfti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not airtight

How To Use draughty In A Sentence

  • The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
  • Would it be cold and draughty with no telly? The Sun
  • Keeping the heat inside Sitting in a draughty room will lower your body temperature and make you feel cold and uncomfortable.
  • At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack. Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn
  • But I must confess that during this blizzardly storm the Castle hall is a little draughty. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
  • They appeared even less interested in ecology than I was, going through the motions in their wellingtons and anoraks, as if they were stood in a draughty lecture theatre rather than in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
  • She is fire in his blood, and a thunder of trumpets; her voice is beyond all music in his ears; and she can shake his soul that else stands steadfast in the draughty presence of the Titans of the Light and of the Dark. Chapter 21
  • Likewise, avoid things - such as fans, doors, drafty windows - which might draw smoke away from the unit.
  • Only a third of the school's windows are double-glazed and because the building is on a slope, the rooms are often draughty and cold. How spending cuts are hitting schools – despite coalition vow to protect them
  • The badge was placed on a flat surface within the child's breathing range, and drafty space was avoided.
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