swelter

Besides water, much needed for the hours spent sweating in the swelter, his firetruck is chock-a-chocolate block with gifts of cakes, fruit compotes and other kind offerings.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

When the city starts to swelter, the smell of trash sticks ineradicably to a garbageman’s body and soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Baltic Sea offers beach getaways for those who would rather not swelter in Spain or inland.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

That's where they've remained since Feb. 20, receiving little water and stale food as they swelter in the Panamanian heat.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2025

We strike a medium, and he shivers outside his bag, while I swelter in mine; but considering from what distances we have come together to share this tent a while, we do well enough.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The WMO outlook comes as western Europe swelters under a "heat dome" of warm air, breaking temperature records for May in Britain and France.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Del Real swelters on futuristic bolero “Incomprensible,” which takes the old-school Cuban torch-song genre and pitches its emblematic guitar to psychedelic new heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

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From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023

The “heat island” effect of Phoenix’s growing urban footprint means that nighttime also now swelters.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

This there was no great difficulty in doing, for the smack flew round steadily enough, and upon an even keel—only swaying to and fro with the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Europe also sweltered through a scorching summer this year, with prolonged heatwaves pushing temperatures above 40C in parts of the south.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Across Europe, the summer months have sweltered through intense, record-breaking heatwaves with minimal rain.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

As the region sweltered through its latest heatwave, the wildfire -- rare in the north of the country -- quickly spread, disrupting rail and road traffic during a busy holiday travel weekend.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent and tens of millions of people have sweltered this week in temperatures that broke records in some countries.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

I sweltered in my wolverine hat and caribou parka.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

My fiancé and I spent a sweltering summer in New York City touring fifth-floor walkup apartments, and then packing up our belongings and moving them to a new place a few blocks away.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

The sweltering heat was felt across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Instead, she faced 30C heat with her ceremony in a sweltering West Yorkshire church, predominantly made of glass.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

"I flew from Shanghai to Chongqing this morning, and the first priority is this shoot," 30-year-old Liu Changqing told AFP, dressed in one of the heavy motorcycle jackets rented to customers, despite the sweltering heat.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

It is an unseasonably warm October day, Indian summer, Mrs. Scatcherd calls it, and we are sweltering on the platform.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline