ovenlike
Example Sentences
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Many sidewalks and plazas in the region were ghost towns, and the hum of air-conditioners filled the heavy, ovenlike air.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2018
Farmers in the Midwest are watching helplessly as ovenlike conditions blister their runty fields of corn.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2012
In their ovenlike sheds, intent on their hazardous work, paying no mind to tourists angling for shots, they embody the much-told story of Africa as a culture of recycling.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012
Below, her ovenlike engine room became a madhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fitzgerald and Cathewe had to bunk the best they could in a tenement at the upper end of the town; two cots in a single room, carpetless and ovenlike for the heat.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
