SULTRY in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for SULTRY, such as:
1. The sultry nightmare was in the past.
2. The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
3. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
4. He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
5. The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
2. The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
3. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
4. He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
5. The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
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Meanings and Examples of SULTRY
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sultry
a. burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
Classic Sentence:
1 The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.
2 It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
3 The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
4 After a while one got restless under it, as one does under the heat of a soft, sultry summer day.
5 The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
6 The sultry nightmare was in the past.
7 It was a sultry, close day, the next day, as the steamer drew near to New Orleans.
8 The heats of summer had driven all who were able to leave the sultry and unhealthy city, to seek the shores of the lake, and its cool sea-breezes.
9 The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.
10 The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there was a dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature.
11 The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.
12 It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads.
13 It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant.
14 There was about an hour still to lunch-time; the dewy morning had already given place to a sultry day.
Example Sentence:
1 A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
2 He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
3 The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
4 The sultry weather in the tropics encourages tourists to lead an indolent life.