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

Bourzgui’s David has all the hallmarks of a rock idol — sultry looks, a sinister smile and talent to burn.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

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

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

Then they turned back and the clouds were sultrier, low on the horizon, and the velvety darkness fell more thickly, like warm snow, and the ravelled tjemaras were fuller and blacker than before.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Couperus, Louis

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

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 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.

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 Bangs, John Kendrick

It is the hour of noon; and the sun, shining down from the zenith, permeates the atmosphere with his sultriest rays.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne