swelter
Example Sentences
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Warm spring evenings that soon will lip into summer swelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
They swelter at summer temperatures that eclipse the city average by 8 degrees Fahrenheit and the Catalina Foothills by 12 degrees.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024
Even as it continues to swelter, the South may get a break from steamy weather this week while the Northwest bakes in some of the highest temperatures people there will endure all summer.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2023
Large swathes of southern Europe continue to swelter in record heat as wildfires rage across the continent.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2023
I asked Mother if I could cut off my hair, which hung in a dense swelter all the way down my back.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing swelter
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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