What's the difference between stuffy and sultry?

Stuffy


Definition:

  • (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
  • (a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
  • (a.) Ill-ventilated; close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8 complained of mild and transient nasal stuffiness and only 1 child had a rise in temperature (37.8 degrees C).
  • (2) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
  • (3) The symptoms evaluated included nasal stuffiness, dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, headache, and feelings of disorientation or depression.
  • (4) "I can't be doing with this stuffiness about only reading classics," she said in her acceptance speech, recalling how one of her teachers had called comics "rubbish".
  • (5) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
  • (6) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
  • (7) Symptom scores for sneezing, stuffy nose, and nasal secretion all decreased dramatically from baseline when budesonide treatment was started.
  • (8) He added: "The cry has gone up 'bring back the Dimblebys' – but imagine if it had, and the cries of 'stuffy coverage'.
  • (9) Revolving chairs, stuffy offices, dry as dust reports, blueprints one day and the next – with the help of a broken-down motor car and a few gallons of petrol – marching men with sweat-stained faces and shining eyes, horses straining and plunging at the guns, little clay-pits opening beneath each step, and piles of bloody clothes and leggings outside the canvas door of a field hospital.
  • (10) Three patients felt infraclavicular pressure; 1 had a brief sensation of breathlessness; 3 had nasal stuffiness from Horner's syndrome associated with the block; none developed headache, back pain, or paresthesias; and 3 had postoperative nausea.
  • (11) They’re betting that it’s a new country now, one ready to embrace a man who won’t play by all the stuffy old rules, who won’t do up his top button or bend the knee.
  • (12) Patients in the BDA group had significantly less (P less than 0.05) sneezing, rhinorrhea and nasal stuffiness at 36 days, cough at 10 days and antihistamine consumption at 17 days.
  • (13) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.
  • (14) Meanwhile Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which has proved a hit with our booksellers and customers, will no doubt be hailed as a breath of fresh air – a highly readable answer to any accusations of stuffiness or impenetrability which are so often levelled against literary prizes."
  • (15) A stuffy and running nose are two of the most expressed symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis and have made the use of decongestants very common.
  • (16) Prevalences of "phlegm in winter," "nasal stuffiness or discharge in winter," and "irritation of eye and throat mucous membranes" were significantly higher in the PF workers.
  • (17) We report on a rhinomanometric assessment of eleven patients undergoing antroconchopexy for relief of a "stuffy" nose.
  • (18) The flunisolide group showed statistically greater improvement than the placebo group in such symptoms as the duration of sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose and nose blowing.
  • (19) The elderly have a generalized decrease in body water content of 7%, and with the degeneration of mucus-secreting cells, the effectiveness of the mucociliary system is reduced with frequent symptoms of nasal stuffiness.
  • (20) Nasal provocation was assessed by clinical score, graded 0-12, to include rhinomanometry, secretions (mL), sneezes, and stuffy nose.

Sultry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
  • (superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
  • (2) The values of the body temperature and breathing frequency were taken from young pigs and sows at a tropical location in order to study the relations between measured climatic values and their complex derivations (the amount of cooling down, enthalpy, sultriness factor, and water vapour pressure).
  • (3) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
  • (4) More than a century later, a similar spectacle is being prepared, but this time the sultry capital of Amazonas will not be staging La Gioconda; it will be hosting the World Cup .
  • (5) There's already a blog called Grindr Remembers , featuring sultry hook-up shots in front of Holocaust memorials … because nothing says "I'm great in bed" like evoking the memory of mass murder and state-sponsored persecution.
  • (6) The Dutchman had elected to field a 5-2-3 that encouraged Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia, its wingbacks, to push forward to support a central duo of Fletcher and Ander Herrera, who proved United’s most impressive performer on a sultry night at this picturesque ground in the hills of Pasadena.
  • (7) 'I t was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they killed people on the streets, and I didn't know what I was doing in Istanbul …" There was something about Turkey's Taksim Square protests that often made me think of the opening line in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar .
  • (8) Sarah Churchwell is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta) Lavinia Greenlaw Photograph: Karen robinson If I opened a novel now and it began with the line: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs …" I'd close it again fast.
  • (9) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
  • (10) The prose still seems remarkably fresh: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
  • (11) The finest exponent of this sultry vocal style over sinister production is, of course, Aaliyah , the late R&B star so name-dropped at the moment.
  • (12) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
  • (13) Most of the criticism of the duet was reserved for Cyrusʼ not so sultry moves, however, even though nothing that she did – from the twerking to the crotch grabs to the simulated masturbation – is new to the genre.
  • (14) Her grown-up brand of pop music – understated, fatalistic, with that sultry voice and her astonishing almond-shaped eye – gave her a sophisticated appeal.
  • (15) (I went back with friends a few days later, when the sun was out, and Rio was at its sultry best.
  • (16) At the back of the palace is a veranda where, in a screenwipe of imagination, one can picture dapper-suited diplomats sitting on sultry evenings, making smalltalk over a gin and tonic and watching the setting sun amid a chorus of crickets.
  • (17) A vigilante group of Surrey housewives, ostensibly the last people on any Che Guevaran recruitment list, forced their local club to turn off its sprinklers by sit-ins, harassing greenkeepers and night-time vigils, which were easy to organise on those sultry evenings.
  • (18) A marriage of south-western generosity and almost eastern sensibilities, with dishes such as hamachi crudo (raw fish) sharpened with onions and capers and bathed in sultry brown butter.
  • (19) Scottish newspaper the Daily Record also today uncovered a sultry version of Cry Me a River Boyle sang for a 1999 charity CD , part-funded by her local Whitburn Community Council, which has led to massive traffic on its site.
  • (20) Rewind a year before the Britney takeover, Beyoncé Knowles was 16 when Destiny's Child's sultry single No, No, No went platinum, and I'm pretty sure there were suggestive dance moves and belly buttons all over that thing.

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