sultry

The sultry “Hard Times” combines a slow cha-cha-cha rhythm with strings, horns, electric keyboards and a reverb-heavy bass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Bourzgui’s David has all the hallmarks of a rock idol — sultry looks, a sinister smile and talent to burn.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

In a sultry basement bar on a Wednesday night in downtown Manhattan, some serious trash talking was going on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Even masala chai would lose its signature, sultry kick.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

Then the wind went again, it was hot and sultry as before.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Van Morrison’s Moondance, despite being constantly wrung out by classic-rock radio and adult-contemporary stations alike, still evokes the possibility offered by summertime’s shorter, sultrier nights.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015

Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

Instead of the night becoming cooler it had grown sultrier, and in places the walk was fairly packed with human beings.

From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

Then they turned back and the clouds were sultrier, low on the horizon, and the velvety darkness fell more thickly, like warm snow, and the ravelled tjemaras were fuller and blacker than before.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

The strip of blue sky was curtained over again, and all was dismal as before, though it grew sultrier every moment; and now and then a distant mutter shook the air to westward.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

The three hottest years in the past century have come in the past decade, and 1995 was the sultriest on record.

From Time Magazine Archive

The day had been one of the sultriest of August.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Susan stepped into the tightly-closed, partially darkened parlor which never in the sultriest weather seemed wholly to lose the chill of its unwarmed winter days.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith

It was one of the sultriest days of August, but the air was vividly fresh, and the sun, with all the strength of the climate of Italy, was unoppressive.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

In the sultriest weather this little arbor was cool and pleasant, and here Napoleon was in the habit of taking his books and papers when he wished to work out of doors.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed