Admitting air currents

Usage examples of drafty.

The walls seemed to press in around Alec as he followed the warder up flight after drafty flight of stone stairs.

The audience room in the Vatican was a bit drafty, as always, but the Pope was well wrapped up in rochet, mozzetta, gaiters and bootees.

Their narrow and drafty vantage point was not the highest or most easily accessible, but von Salm and various military advisors had two weeks ago sealed off and taken possession of the platform that commanded the best view.

The count led the way back to the dining salotto , then through the kitchen and into a large, drafty pantry.

Marr and Senn had turned the drafty Bhor hall into a wonder of festooned flowers and subtle lights.

He was a wildcatter, worked for one of the big oil companies, and he dragged me off to West Texas and left me for months at a time in a drafty little single-wide trailer with nobody to talk to but an old bluetick hound.

It was a seven-day journey, but Dolley enjoyed every moment-the crossing of wide waters by ferry, the rough rides over muddy, rutted roads, even the nights in noisy, drafty ordinaries.

Invalids clinging to life, terrified of overexerting themselves, terrified of a breath of drafty air, of a stray germ, of an injudicious meal.

He found himself sobbing helplessly at the loss of all his shipmates, the realization that he hated Hitler for the first time in a flesh and blood visceral way for causing all this when he could be sitting in a miserable damp drafty factory by the Quinnipiac River in Fair Haven toiling over a Seth Thomas engine and listening to the alcoholic shop supervisor rambling about not taking a full hour for lunch .

Even if he spent his last years building clocks in a drafty warehouse down in New Haven Harbor near the Quinnipiac Pier, that would be less painful than ever facing this again.

This was a dimension of Marguerida he had never considered before, and would not have regarded with as much respect if he had not spent those months at Halyn House, mucking out stables and hammering wooden pegs into drafty windows.

The undercaptain reads over the words of his last report, ignoring the drafty chill at his back and upon his neck, wanting to ensure that Overcaptain Chyorst and Sub-Majer Brevyl will have little to criticizeor at least as little as Lorn can manage.

But on a cold day, in a drafty room, chilled cucumber soup is about as welcome as a swarm of wasps at a bat mitzvah.

Come in, Edward and close the door, it's drafty and cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

He always bought everything in vast, bulk quantities, dirt cheap, in huge drafty warehouse like stores out in the middle of the prairie.