heat waves
- plural of heat wave.
Example Sentences
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"In public awareness, extraordinary floods, heat-waves, or drought episodes rank amongst the most tangible indications of a changing climate."
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024
Compounding that problem, the government’s wheat purchases from farmers have more than halved this year after heat-waves slashed output.
From Reuters • Jun. 15, 2022
His head bowed lower between his shoulders, and those shoulders trembled, and the muscles over them quivered like heat-waves rising of a spring morning.
From The Night Horseman by Brand, Max
But at midday, beneath the pitiless rays of the equatorial sun, it resembles an enormous pool of molten brass, the illusion being heightened by the heat-waves which flicker and dance above it.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
So much energy is wasted in the production of heat-waves and ultra-violet waves which we do not want, that 90 per cent. or more of the power used in illumination is wasted.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
