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tropic

adjective as in of or relating to the tropics

adjective as in very hot

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Example Sentences

Mr Hock used to be an owner of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square.

In Tropic Thunder, he was a hopelessly deluded movie star in search of an Oscar.

He did a comic turn in Tropic Thunder and a quirky commercial for Jimmy Kimmel that aired during the Oscars.

"Tropic Thunder" was a modest hit ($159 million), but it cost a fortune to make ($100 million).

Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.

This specimen was obtained at Ascension, and is common in all parts of the Atlantic within or near the Tropic.

Through the tracery of the lattice came the warm breeze, bearing the narcotic scent of those tropic gardens.

That organ has only to exhale, in its degree, a fostering tropic air in order to produce complications almost beyond reckoning.

Scurlocks voice, rising out of the softly-lit tropic evening, died suddenly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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