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

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

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

Even masala chai would lose its signature, sultry kick.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

And so it was that in the giddy, sultry world of their embrace, the real Lazlo—fast asleep in the city of Weep—turned over on his pillow, crushed the moth, and broke the dream.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

The hours slipped by; the air grew stiller and sultrier.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

One evening it seemed hotter and sultrier than ever.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon

See, rather, under sultrier skies What vegetable Londons rise, And teem, and suffer without sound.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Kingsley, Charles

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

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 Willis, N. Parker

It was the sultriest day of the whole season—surely they could not think of shutting up the second-floor back windows to-night!

From A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie

The June day was at its sultriest hour.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

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 Smith, Harriet L.