the builders knew how to construct weathertight homes
Example sentencesExamples
In ideal conditions, a house constructed with a timber frame can be windproof and weathertight in days and completed in six to eight weeks.
Fiterman Hall is weathertight, with little mold.
It's an oldish building, but it's nice, fairly weathertight, and fits my needs.
The local authority undertook the works to the roof with insufficient regard for the importance of programming the completion of sections of the re-roofing to ensure that the roof was at all times weathertight.
Hence, an architect's most fundamental charge is to design a weathertight building.
Instead, that $100 million the Government is spending on the weathertight homes bureaucracy is, according to the Government, to provide a quick and speedy resolution to the problem of rotting homes.
Definition of weathertight in US English:
weathertight
adjectiveˈweT͟Hərˌtīt
(of a building) sealed against rain and wind.
（建筑物）防风雨的，不透风雨的
the house was warm and weathertight
the builders knew how to construct weathertight homes
Example sentencesExamples
In ideal conditions, a house constructed with a timber frame can be windproof and weathertight in days and completed in six to eight weeks.
Fiterman Hall is weathertight, with little mold.
Hence, an architect's most fundamental charge is to design a weathertight building.
Instead, that $100 million the Government is spending on the weathertight homes bureaucracy is, according to the Government, to provide a quick and speedy resolution to the problem of rotting homes.
It's an oldish building, but it's nice, fairly weathertight, and fits my needs.
The local authority undertook the works to the roof with insufficient regard for the importance of programming the completion of sections of the re-roofing to ensure that the roof was at all times weathertight.