Sentence examples for drafts of air from inspiring English sources

It is deep, boulder-strewn and has strong drafts of air sweeping up from its floor.

The coal fires are similar to those that smoldered for months beneath the wreckage of the World Trade Center, in that they involve buried fuels and are sustained and intensified by slight drafts of air and heat locked into surrounding rubble or rock.

This is a rectangular piece of wood, about 9 by 6 inches (23 by 15 centimetres) in size, which is padded with flannel and covered with dressed calfskin; a parchment shield around one end protects the delicate leaf from disturbance by drafts of air.

The principal requirement was a furnace capable of maintaining a reducing atmosphere i.e., one in which a high temperature could be maintained from a good draft of air.

A coal furnace is made up of several elements: a chamber containing a grate on which combustion takes place and through which ashes drop for disposal; a chimney to carry away smoke and provide a draft of air; another source of air supply to help burn volatile gases and hydrocarbons; and a metal surface over which the hot gases pass and which transfers heat to circulating water or air.

At the Blodgett Forest study site, methanol exchange was determined with the relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) method by sampling up- and down-drafts of air into separate reservoirs (cooled activated carbon microtraps), which were analysed immediately after collection by a gas chromatography flame ionisation detector technique (Schade and Goldstein, 2001).

Sometimes, insects will not fly upward unless they feel a draft of air coming from the opening.

Drafts of cold air were blowing through the open holes.

As the librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, Dr. Boorstin literally brought drafts of fresh air into a stodgy, forbidding institution whose 550 miles of shelves and 19 reading rooms were all but terra incognita to the public and even to many scholars.

The essence of the sea drifted up from the base of a cliff and I took in deep drafts of salt air.

A glacier breeze is a draft of cold air that is cooled by contact with a glacier, descends along its edge, and then dies out within a short distance.