A fir-tree loves a water border, loves a long wind in a draughty cañon, loves to spend itself secretly on the inner finishings of its burnished, shapely cones.
Long winds move in the draughty valleys, blown sand fills and fills about the lower branches, piling pyramidal dunes, from the top of which the mesquite twigs flourish greenly.
The cold current of air he had admitted died away in the draughty passages with queer gasping noises, like a wind strangled.
Night had fallen; the wind was rising without, and seemed to rustle and whistle in the draughty passages of the old house.
She puts on, or has put on, a smarter jacket in the daytime if she has to stand in a draughty place; if she is not sleeping out it does not so much matter.
In a similar way the almuce was a hood to protect the head, and such articles, as Mr. Macalister says, the clergy would continue to adopt in their cold and draughty churches or in open-air processions.
It's bad enough meeting trains in any case, without having to hang about a draughty station for an hour.
Derek's long wait on the draughty platform had generated an irritability which overcame the deep-seated awe of his mother which was the result of years of defeat in battles of the will.
Marion, without tea or courage, settled herself and the baby in the draughty waiting-room.
Other jests followed, and he sat down amid a flutter of applause after promising that when he next presided over the Winter Assizes in a draughty court-house he would send for a Robeen blanket and wrap his legs in it.
How very draughty and uncomfortable these sties are which have an open yard attached, and an inlet at all times usable, can be readily discovered in cold and windy weather by noticing the position in which the occupant has made its bed.
The little girl did not have many pleasures; there were very few children in the neighbourhood, and Julia was not very strong; she easily caught colds in dark O'Farrell Street, or in the draughty hall.
The others had gone on; they were alone in the draughty wings.
And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights.
Philip lounged and watched them sulkily, snuffing and wheezing and dipping into the bowl, and cursing the house for a draughty barn.
Unfortunately, the main trysail was set--the most draughty sail in the world, sending all its winds bang down your neck from one end of the quarter-deck to the other.
Young hogs and sows that are thin are very prone to rheumatism when given wet, draughtysleeping quarters.
Animals that are exposed to cold, wet, changeable weather, or kept in cold, damp, draughty quarters frequently suffer from rheumatism.
It's the least draughty apartment in all the confoundedly draughty House of Life.
The conversation in Albrecht's draughty study took scarcely less time than that in the little yellow room at Schloss "Hermitage.
Happy Fanny" toiled in a cold and draughty out-house with a couple of 6-pdrs.
Divisional Headquarters were in "Armstrong" or small canvas huts, draughty and cold.
These boles were usually built in exposed and draughty positions, and could only be used when the wind was favourable.
That was the way she entered the broad and draughty hall, with the formidably big rooms on either side dimly lighted by the queer candle lamps and the faint glow from the fires on the chilly marble hearths.
It wasn't until she had ushered Felicia into the draughty angle of the upper hall where she was to sew that Mrs. Alden discovered Babiche.
Instantly the leaping flames transformed the great, uncomfortable, draughty barn into a hall of gorgeous color and shadows without limit.
Maga and the gipsies came last, swarming behind us up the ladder through a hole among the beams, and clambering on to the roof over boxes piled in the draughty attic.
I found myself in a great draughty kitchen, in which there was no fire but only the cheerless flickering light of two candles.
A fir-tree loves a water border, loves a long wind in a draughty canon, loves to spend itself secretly on the inner finishings of its burnished, shapely cones.
Come in, you may take cold in this nasty, draughty passage.
The old woman, grumbling angrily all the way, led her into a small, draughty apartment adjoining that of her charge.
They ascended the stairs into another dark and draughty hall, flanked on either side by a couple of doors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draughty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
