Draughty

Just as much as anyone else, he should be prepared to deliver lectures in draughty halls, to chalk pavements, to canvass voters, to distribute leaflets, even to fight in civil wars if it seems necessary. ❋ Unknown (1948)

He was willing to work for Socialism, even to deliver lectures on it in draughty halls, and he knew that it was both necessary and inevitable, but it is doubtful whether he subjectively wanted it. ❋ Unknown (1944)

Grandfather and Mr. Lark have finished repairing the moulding in the huge rectangular dining room and have moved onto refitting the draughty bedroom windows. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

If you're a novelist in 2010, there's no avoiding Kureishi's "cabaret": the rickety podium or the draughty festival tent. ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

At their backs yawned the black mouth of a cave, out of which, from time to time, blew draughty gusts of wind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By this I do not mean that the roofs leak or the walls are draughty; but what I do mean is that life in them is degrading and unwholesome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My sister, Rose, and I share this tiny back room above the kitchen, sparely furnished with only our narrow beds, a wobbly three-legged night table, and this damp sea chest pushed up to the draughty window. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Today, in the absence of trains, he would have to spend it on the platform, where he might well have noticed it, and where working on a new score might have proved more problematic if not draughty. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mannequins stand by for duty in upper storey of this draughty ladies shop in a small town on Highway 200 in Oaxaca. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The changes include a transformation of draughty homes, plus vast expansion of renewable and nuclear power ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tamalpais, and, yes, he was right, fifty miles away, where the draughty winds of the Pacific blew in the Golden Gate, the smoke of San Francisco made a low-lying haze against the sky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I found myself neglected, out there on top the draughty house, while ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was late one morning soon after the Falklands war that I woke up in a draughty squat to the sound of shouting in the street. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Well do I remember the damp and draughty evening, shivering without overcoats because we could not afford them, that Louis and I started out to select our saloon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a large and draughty and variegated piece of water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In what felt like no time at all, we had arrived and entered the somewhat draughty Upper Hall with its rather interesting artwork on the wall, a floor to ceiling spiral of golden handprints, which is a lot better than some of the weird and wonderful stuff a previous modern-art-loving Master installed, including a huge wooden dinosaur in the grounds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)