Preposition: in

• summer: Too Hot - Too Cold Many shops are cold and drafty in winter or hot and stuffy in summer.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• sound: Well, ' worst ' might be too harsh, but when compared to the PCM track, it sounds a bit stuffy.

Modifies a noun

• nose: These events contribute to the stuffy, runny nose that accompanies a cold.

• atmosphere: Dry mucous membranes in the nose due to a stuffy indoor atmosphere.

• classroom: I thought it was a better way to learn French than by sitting in a stuffy classroom for an hour.

• room: Reading about Imagine was like opening a door in a very stuffy room.

• office: Stuck in a stuffy office with no air-conditioning all summer?

• image: I think we've got a really stuffy image that comes over on the television.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The BBC also introduced an alternative to the rather stuffy Home Service.

• too: You need air don't you - I suppose too stuffy a room is not going to suit certain plants?

• so: I decided against a bigger more established Training School who were most focused toward commercial pilots and were so stuffy.

• very: Reading about Imagine was like opening a door in a very stuffy room.

• not: I'm sure he'd be thinking of them as very responsible, not stuffy parents.

• slightly: Perhaps the biggest problem from the book's age is the slightly stuffy approach.

Used with adjective complement

• get: It's pretty hot and the city can get pretty stuffy.

• feel: I wore them once - the first time for 5 months - and felt awfully stuffy, I couldn't sleep.

• sound: Be wary of sounding stuffy, pompous or arrogant â it will offend the reader.

• seem: The boat seemed stuffy, and my head ached; so I thought I would step out into the cool night-air.