STUFFY in a Sentence

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For STUFFY, below is one of 13 sentences:
The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUFFY
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stuffy
 a.  stout; lacking sufficient ventilation; close; dull and boring
Classic Sentence:
1  There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  In her stuffy room at the hotel to which she had gone on landing, Lily Bart that evening reviewed her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
3  There were small stuffy corn-fields and brick-yards and greasy oil-wells.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  The little cottage was close and stuffy after leaving the outer air.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
5  The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  But the room was awfully stuffy.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The crowd of people really had made the house stuffy.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The atmosphere is very stuffy in here, can we open a window?
2  The exodus from the hot and stuffy city was particularly noticeable on Friday evenings.
3  The stuffy room made her lethargic: she felt as if she was about to nod off.
4  Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
5  It's really hot and stuffy in here.
6  Centrally heated offices tend to be stuffy.