sweat box
Example Sentences
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"The whole ship was a sweat box," he said, with some passengers in cabins that had no windows resorting to sleeping on the ship's roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Kiss me, take my heart, break it again," he sings atop a convulsive electro pulse, as dancers pull him into a transparent "sweat box" that represents the relationship he can't escape.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
I had an hour of solid comfort to-day, now I'm in the sweat box again.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
Me back to the sweat box at eight per when I'm gettin' fourteen for this?
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
When she was brought into what the sensational newspapers would call the "sweat box" it was clear that she was in a state of abject terror.
From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell
