sultry

It also features sparkling cameos from Penélope Cruz as a sultry cabaret dancer and Glenn Close as a Spanish-speaking American professor.

From Slate ● Oct. 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

When she came back to the porch she said, “We was gonna just have a cold piece ’cause it’s so sultry, but now I think I’ll cook.”

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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 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 Charles Kingsley

See, rather, under sultrier skies What vegetable Londons rise, And teem, and suffer without sound: Or in your tranquil garden ground, Contented, in the falling gloom, Saunter and see the roses bloom.

From Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

Instead of the night becoming cooler it had grown sultrier, and in places the walk was fairly packed with human beings.

From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

One evening it seemed hotter and sultrier than ever.

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

Shout out to future “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson, who joined Journey for “Raised on Radio” and proceeded to lay down the slinkiest, sultriest, funkiest bass line the band had ever known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

That Canyon was the sultriest place I have ever struck, and my experience includes some of the hottest sections this side of the equator.

From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan

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 Wilkie Collins

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 Mayne Reid