"stuffy air" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the hot, moist, and often stale air inside a closed space, such as a room with poor ventilation. For example, "The kitchen was oppressively stuffy, with air that smelled of fried food."
This freewheeling, talent-packed event has none of the stuffy air of more established festivals.
IN THE main room of the small, old-fashioned house, stacked full of books, an old fan scarcely moved the stuffy air around.
He nodded to the conductor, and the stuffy air in the hall suddenly began pulsing and throbbing, banging and wailing with a loud and persistent mechanical cacophony.
"Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs," she wrote on Feb. 23, 1944.
He would make, he thought, a kind of chapel for drinking, a place where people of culture could absorb alcohol and fine conversation, or simply sit and meditate, soothed by the dim lights and the stuffy air.
The exhibition of Richard Stankiewicz's charmingly vigorous welded scrap-metal sculpture at the AXA Gallery is the artist's first retrospective in New York, but it has a comforting, even stuffy air of familiarity.
It's not every day you meet a freedom fighter in the garden at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, politely telling an assistant he needs more water, and to take his meetings outdoors instead of in that stuffy air-conditioned suite, but here he is, Che Guevara.
The congregation — some 60 inmates sitting in a bland cinder-block chapel — erupted in laughter, puncturing the otherwise stuffy prison air.
When Richter bursts into Mary's villa the night after their dalliance, a whiff of violence and unpredictability is allowed to penetrate the stuffy, perfumed air.
His voice was thick and stuffy, like air in a cellar, and I was surprised to hear the trace of an accent.
His predicament explained his and his wife's presence last week in a Chicago conference room whose stuffy, antiseptic air belied the pathos of a gathering marked by slivers of hope and ample uncertainty.
