sweltering

Example Sentences

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Cooling systems across the country, now more urgently needed as climate change turns up the heat on already sweltering temperatures, were exhausting the grid.

From Seattle Times

The discovery last June of 53 migrants who died in the locked, sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio was the clearest sign of things to come.

From Washington Post

In June, 53 people from Mexico and Central America perished in a sweltering tractor trailer abandoned in San Antonio.

From Los Angeles Times

“There was nothing we could do,” Andrés told me one sweltering July afternoon as we sat in the shade of his family’s covered wooden porch.

From New York Times

Families here bake in sweltering shacks with corrugated metal roofs.

From Washington Post