Thesaurus / sweltering
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
While the pants cinch at the bottom and can be pulled up to mid-shin in hot weather, for superior ventilation I did something I’d never dreamed of and wore the shorts iteration on a sweltering three-day backpacking trip.
AT LAST, THE PERFECT HIKING PANTS FOR CURVY WOMENKAELYN LYNCHMARCH 25, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
One of the factors that cause urban environments to reach sweltering temperatures is a lack of vegetation.
CAN PLANTING MORE TREES KEEP CITIES FROM HEATING UP?SHAENA MONTANARIMARCH 11, 2021POPULAR SCIENCE
Getting here has been a brutal ten-hour slog in sweltering heat.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTHDAVID KUSHNERDECEMBER 28, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
I dumped water over my head, hopped back into my van, and sped off toward the Cedar Pass Campground to escape the sweltering mid-day heat.
I SAW AN EPIC SUNSET AT BADLANDS NATIONAL PARKEMILY PENNINGTONNOVEMBER 3, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
Penguins in the huddle’s center, where temperatures reach a sweltering 100 degrees Fahrenheit, mostly stand still.
MATH OF THE PENGUINSSUSAN D'AGOSTINOAUGUST 17, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Rain storms, hot winds, sweltering intervals of intolerable heat—these were vagaries of nature and might be endured.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
With the approach of midday the wind had more and more fallen, it was now sweltering hot and the air trembled in the sunshine.
TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Far in the sultry west was an occasional play of lightning, the hot eye of day peeping back into the sweltering night.
A YANKEE FROM THE WESTOPIE READ
The dank, decaying vegetation, the dimness, the very airlessness of the sweltering valley—all this is not merely heat.
FORGING THE BLADESBERTRAM MITFORD
At high noon on the equator, the temperature reached a sweltering 180° absolute; it became somewhat chillier toward the poles.
UNWISE CHILDGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
WORDS RELATED TO SWELTERING
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrific
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- hectic
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
- ardent
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- red-hot
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
- ardent
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- calescent
- close
- decalescent
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- red-hot
- roasting
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
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