| A typical room was drafty and chilly in winter and humid and sweltering in summer. |
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| Poinsettias are sensitive to extreme temperature, so don't place your plant next to a heater or near a drafty window or doorway. |
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| In the winter, the place will still be drafty, cold, and dangerously unhealthy. |
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| Where are the shows about gadfly millionaires who rattle about in drafty mansions, and the mundane decisions we must make ev'ry day? |
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| The workout area was drafty and cold as always, and Star slightly shivered under her workout clothing but she could take it. |
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| The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic. |
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| Before the auditor visits your house, make a list of any existing problems such as condensation and uncomfortable or drafty rooms. |
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| The badge was placed on a flat surface within the child's breathing range, and drafty space was avoided. |
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| Avoid placing them in a drafty area or their flower buds may drop before they have a chance to open. |
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| You can rearrange your furniture so that you move it away from drafty areas and closer to the fireplace. |
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| However, avoid placing plants near drafty doors, uninsulated windows, and heat sources. |
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| They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats. |
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| The candelabra had gone out several minutes ago, due to the drafty nature of the tunnels. |
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| In the center of the drafty room, the six men who had arrived that evening sat on stools around a large table. |
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| Our home is about three years old, and we've had drafty windows since it was built. |
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| Are your windows drafty, hard to open, and covered with frost on chilly mornings? |
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| I note off-handedly that I'm slightly shivering from sitting so close to the drafty window, and I'm losing feeling in my hands and feet. |
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| Yet still panic lurks in dusty corners and slips through locked but drafty doors. |
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| Install tight-fitting, insulating window shades on windows that feel drafty after weatherizing. |
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| If your home has drafty single-pane windows or single-pane aluminum sliders, the heat loss from windows may be as much as 50 percent. |
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| Protect plants from icy, drafty windows by pulling pots back at night or placing newspapers against the glass. |
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| We were directed down the steep path of the postcard perfect greenhill, past transplanted historic buildings and a fairy-tale well, to the drafty, pre-revolutionary farmhouse. |
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| Old-style, double-hung window frames are drafty by nature, so what you gain in energy efficiency with the double glazing, you may lose in the design of the old windows. |
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| Avoid drafty areas or situations where the flame will be unstable. |
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| If by air walls they mean uninsulated, drafty windows then, yes. |
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| To make buildings warmer and less drafty, chinking was added to stop up the inevitable holes and gaps between roughly squared timbers. |
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| We had always imagined air pollution as skulking into our home worming itself under a drafty window. |
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| The house has double-glazing, but the living room still gets cold and drafty. |
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| The interior is dramatic, but it has a drafty, makeshift feel, like a temporary pavilion at the Venice Biennale or a futuristic expo. |
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| Most consumers will avoid buying a house that is drafty, uncomfortable, expensive to heat or has moisture problems. |
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| Sometimes this meant a nice home, but at other times, immigrants were expected to live in old, drafty shacks or in chicken houses. |
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| No matter what the material, ill-fitting doors lose even more energy and can make the home drafty and uncomfortable. |
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| Close windows and doors and seal drafty places with wet towels, blankets or duct tape. |
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| The displaced families settled for a patch of land at 2000 meters elevation, drafty housing, and some livestock. |
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| Upon investigation, the team discovers old and drafty windows and doors in that wing of the building. |
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| It was abandoned in 1958 because the building was leaking, it was drafty, and the vermin were destroying the town records. |
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| But most of the abandoned houses, with sagging roofs and drafty walls, are just there. |
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| Are some rooms drafty or difficult to keep warm? |
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| Just as it makes sense to renovate, rather than maintain a drafty building, our health system needs substantial renovations, not just minor changes. |
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| Incredibly expensive, the gem-like Alfa set new standards of refinement and performance in an era when many sports cars were damp, drafty, and dull as dirt. |
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| The house was a large, old drafty Victorian that was only warm in winter because of an antique potbelly stove my mother kept going day and night. |
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| Figures show that even if every policy they've promised on energy efficiency is delivered, poor people will still be shivering in drafty homes for another 25 years. |
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| Our older rental is drafty, has an older operating system, etc. |
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| Basement windows are notorious for being hard to open and drafty. |
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| In the past, when houses were poorly insulated and drafty, a space heater could be expected only to heat the room it was installed in and perhaps an adjacent area. |
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| He heard from people who were in some of these accommodations with flooded basements and all sorts of drafty conditions, conditions that were very unsuitable for families. |
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| That is why the basement of a leaky house feels drafty, as the cold outside air is drawn through leaks into the area of lower pressure, while rooms on the second floor are more comfortable. |
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| Use caulking to seal drafty windows and doors. |
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| There's no insulation, and the windows are drafty. |
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| James Harvey and his daughter Kat arrive at drafty old Whipstaff Manor. |
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| Mostly because Oye, This Cell Is Drafty had already been used for Escape From Alcatraz, years before. |
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