sultry

It also features sparkling cameos from Penélope Cruz as a sultry cabaret dancer and Glenn Close as a Spanish-speaking American professor.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

After an opening salvo of rap-centric tracks, Swim was moody and sultry, with flowing choreography that underscored its message of persevering in choppy waters.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Porter originally wrote it as a sultry bolero, but Sinatra and Riddle supercharge it into one of the singer’s most celebrated uptempo showcases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Even masala chai would lose its signature, sultry kick.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

A yet sultrier warmth was bestowed by a goodly quantity of peat, which was crumbling to white ashes among the burning brands, and incensed the kitchen with its not ungrateful fragrance.

From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The air was sultrier than ever, heavy with fragrance and enervating with forebodings of a storm.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus

See, rather, under sultrier skies What vegetable Londons rise, And teem, and suffer without sound: Or in your tranquil garden ground, Contented, in the falling gloom, Saunter and see the roses bloom.

From Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Shout out to future “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson, who joined Journey for “Raised on Radio” and proceeded to lay down the slinkiest, sultriest, funkiest bass line the band had ever known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

That Canyon was the sultriest place I have ever struck, and my experience includes some of the hottest sections this side of the equator.

From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan

The June day was at its sultriest hour.

From Whirligigs by O. Henry

Consequently I gasped out something about its being the sultriest 47th of August in eighteen years, and plumped back into a chair opposite him.

From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs