Sentence examples for drafty houses from inspiring English sources

Corbyn grew up in large, drafty houses, first in Chippenham and then Pave Lane, in Shropshire.

So thank the bad dates, the boring jobs, the drafty houses and the dull knives, because they're the things making you see how lucky you are when you get your hands on the gold.

Yet the uncontrolled rape of nature becomes natural when millions of us in drafty houses need coal and gas to keep warm and cool; when we need oil to plow fields to plant food to feed cows; when we need gasoline for cars to take us shopping; when we need jet fuel to bomb nations to control fuels.

He lives in a "large, drafty house".

And both children got pneumonia from the drafty house.

I know the bite of the cold breeze that slithers through a drafty house.

Ocean currents, he said, "blow through the ship like a drafty house with all the windows open".

Outwardly, he seemed to live in shabby eccentricity and with aimless brilliance, in a damp and drafty house not far from Oxford, where he busied himself in studying Greek poetry and inventing verse forms.

The task of building new, low-cost, zero-emission homes and renovating the UK's vast, drafty housing stock, was at the centre of calls for a genuine green "new deal" in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis.

David Dwyer, the contractor who built the Yerke family's home and installed their geothermal system, says that if you have an old and drafty house you should, before putting in a fancy heating system, put in new windows, seal leaks and add insulation.

"We are not at all surprised," said Nancy Sutley, L.A.'s deputy mayor for energy and environment, citing the city's "moderate climate, with fewer heating and air-conditioning days, and its relatively newer, less drafty housing stock" than in many parts of the U.S.