(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.
Swelter
Definition:
(v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
(v. i.) To welter; to soak.
(v. t.) To oppress with heat.
(v. t.) To exude, like sweat.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the summer heat strikes the Korean peninsula, it's not ice or water that North Korea's authorities recommend to get through the sweltering conditions – it's dog meat, among other "revitalising" foods.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
(4) The agents were waiting for the arrival of a flight from San Vicente del Caguán, a cattle-ranching town in the sweltering southern lowlands, the largest town in a region dominated by the country's most powerful guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
(5) Shola Obadeyu wore a heavy duffel coat while queueing in Heathrow for a flight back to her sweltering home city of Abuja.
(6) Against a backdrop of the East River and the Manhattan skyline, addressing thousands of supporters who braved sweltering summer heat, Clinton portrayed herself as a fighter and champion of progressive causes as she laid out the themes that will define her second bid for the White House.
(7) Wales take on Cyprus in the sweltering heat of Nicosia on Thursday night before hosting Israel in Cardiff on Sunday and Coleman has been involved in football long enough to recognise the perils of getting into a discussion on the six points in 72 hours that would seal qualification for Euro 2016 with two fixtures to spare.
(8) Health experts think mosquito transmission probably will occur in the US, but the expectation is that it will be in low-elevation, sweltering places where the insect has been a steady problem – like southern Florida or southern Texas .
(9) The officer closed the door and soon Hutcherson began sweltering from the heat in the stifling room.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young girl eats porridge in a sweltering hot shipping container in Bentiu.
(11) It is a sweltering day in the west London neighbourhood of Hammersmith, but for one estate agent the temperature of the housing market has been distinctly colder in recent weeks.
(12) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(13) Perhaps Oprah really did work with “Teavana’s leading teaologist, Naoko Tsunoda” to create it, through long, hard hours in some sweltering Starbucks tea mill, up to her elbows in cardamom, beset by cloves, painstakingly measuring and remeasuring piles of pot-pourri to achieve the perfect balance of inspiration and spiritual health.
(14) More than 1,800 people were killed; others were stranded for days without food or drinking water in sweltering temperatures, producing searing images of a human catastrophe and government failure.
(15) The theme of this week's meeting in the sweltering Indonesian resort island of Bali is global partnership, the orphan child of the millennium development goals (MDGs).
(16) The majority of respondents from Colombia were from the Andean city of Bogotá, which is not believed to have been badly affected, while most Venezuelan respondents were from the sweltering coastal capital Caracas, which is thought to have suffered high rates of infection.
(17) Many now swelter in tiny concrete cells for months on end without charge, their detention renewed by a judge every 45 days .
(18) Souvenir stands sell doormats and toilet rolls bearing the image of Yanukovych, and of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Just a few hundred people remain, sweltering in the summer heat, a far cry from the tens of thousands who stood there during the icy winter evenings prior to Yanukovych's fall.
(19) Born in a market town not far from the capital city of Asmara, Teklehaimanot explained on a sweltering day in Amsterdam, at the team’s official presentation before the start of the race in Utrecht, how cycling was in his blood.
(20) Courtesy of Australia they are enjoying a dystopian coming of age in broken families trapped in a makeshift prison on a sweltering island.