(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.
Wintry
Definition:
(a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Example Sentences:
(1) That's a high price to pay for one day of cheers on a wintry Wednesday.
(2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
(3) The 30th Sundance film festival kicks off on Thursday in the mountain resort of Park City, Utah, against a backdrop of wintry conditions for the independent motion picture.
(4) Further wintry showers are expected to move south as the week progresses.
(5) Parts of northern England could see wintry showers on Saturday, while on Sunday many parts of the country will see both sunny spells and rain, she said.
(6) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(7) A big chunk of the US is getting a blast of wintry weather under what Accuweather has called the worst ice storm of the year .
(8) Parts of Britain face continued freezing temperatures from wintry weather that has brought days of disruption to parts of the country.
(9) The north-west of England will be mainly wet with wintry showers through the day, especially on coasts.
(10) Since he became prime minister in 2013, Gunnlaugsson has overseen sensitive negotiations with the creditors of the three big Icelandic banks that collapsed during the 2008 crisis – while knowing, the leaked documents show, that his wife’s offshore company, Wintris Inc, which lost 515m kronur (£2.8m) in the crash, was owed a sizeable sum from their bankruptcies.
(11) The travel chaos ensuedon Sunday as the worst of the wintry showers came to an end across the country and forecasters predicted dry conditions and a partial thaw.
(12) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(13) Power has been restored to about 9,000 homes cut off by the wintry weather in the Peak District, according to Western Power Distribution.
(14) He just made it to the door as we left, standing with difficulty in the wintry sun: no fuss, no self-pity, just an immense courtesy that endured to the end.
(15) A h, the many Proustian pleasures to be derived from a renewed acquaintance with Roy Ward Baker 's 1958 Titanic melodrama A Night To Remember ... Last seen by me on some wintry Sunday afternoon in the prepubescent early 1970s, probably in the same post-prandial time-slot where I first encountered The Cockleshell Heroes, Carve Her Name With Pride and The Colditz Story – the dull roar of British postwar self-congratulation on film.
(16) Across the road, High Water has a kind of wintry European cabin feel, with wooden ceiling beams and another great cocktail menu.
(17) The Met Office said people in north Wales, northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland could expect severe gales with gusts of about 70mph and frequent wintry showers.
(18) Wintry showers are expected to hit the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday.
(19) Heavy wintry showers across southern Scotland will clear to leave a fine day with long spells of sunshine.
(20) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.