Sentence examples for the stuffy from inspiring English sources

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the stuffy

adjective

Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

  • I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.

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(Foursquare shuns the stuffy "mayoralty").

A minute passes in the stuffy dark.

Laughter and chatter filled the stuffy room.

Now he's streamlining the stuffy old game of golf.

The stuffy old Oscars are out of the way.

But he has always despised the stuffy old British ruling class.

Parents crowded into the stuffy auditorium as Ms. Marlin announced the proposed boundaries.

Mr. Hallberg's nobility is not the stuffy brie-under-the-nostrils kind.

And the stuffy old men in the green eyeshades who run golf?

Yangzom sat by the open door of the stuffy room and fanned herself.

By 1924, Virginia Woolf was complaining about the stuffy, intellectualized sanctimoniousness of those books.

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