sultriness

Example Sentences

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"I'd say it's a desert aesthetic with a soul vocal. Like a Tarantino soundtrack or a Nancy Sinatra album – the twang of the guitars, the sultriness of the production."

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

"The Company You Keep" is adapted from a Korean format, but moves with the sultriness of Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight."

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023

Take heart: We project that this month we may once again be spared the worst of Washington’s standard sultriness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

The jazzy seven-member band, led by Gerald Sternbach at the piano, provides sultriness or drive, as suits the occasion.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018

Isis goes to Byblos; she arrives there fatigued with sultriness, thirst, and the toilsome, stony road.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)