We have our "drafty prose" as they had their "drafty riming.
It is true that our forefathers lived, many of them to a ripe old age, with only fireplaces to heat their drafty homes and with no heat at all in their public buildings.
Nothing is more uncomfortable in winter than cold anddrafty floors.
Again, if the cellar has no plaster ceiling, a drafty floor can be remedied by lining the under side of the flooring with felt paper or like material.
A cold, drafty floor is a constant menace, inducing catarrhal affections, and a damp floor, with its constant evaporation of unwholesome moisture, is equally unfavorable.
Second-grade material may be used for the wood-house, but faulty building of the poultry house may mean more in losses from drafty floors or walls than the saving in the first outlay will warrant.
Over crowding in a cold drafty hutch in severe weather may so weaken the mother that she bears weak ones.
Cold, damp and drafty quarters are usually the cause.
There were no outward changes in her life: the drafty town hall, the long bus-rides, the bad news from France, and at home the pinch and ugliness of poverty.
She would not hover in the drafty passages and listen to the grumbling Humphreys nor stand outside glass doors and help bewildered fellow-clerks over their blunders before they went in to face a merciless authority.
A while that day it snowed, and a while it rained, and all the while a shrewish wind scolded shrilly in the wireless rig and rampaged along the damp and drafty decks.
You honor my poor and drafty house," said Mr. Magee.
What with Christmas only two days away, and a lot of shopping to be done, I can't linger in this drafty station for thanks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drafty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: airy; blowy; blustering; boreal; breezy; brisk; drafty; fresh; gusty; puffy; squally; windy
