sultry
adjective
oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering.
sultrily
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a word derived from
sultry.
Example Sentences
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Black stars like Diana Ross, swathed in a mille-feuille of black fur, hair sultrily flipped, and Ray Charles, beaming and bow-tied, were photographed as icons for Blackglama Mink.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
But within his soul, as without him, the air breathed less sultrily now, and fresher; tears had blunted the sharp edge of the first bitterness of his sorrow.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
But in summer no ghost, however sultrily appointed in the other world, could feel it an object to revisit that ruined tower.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
The little touches of description give one the very sense of the hot thundrous summer night as it "sultrily suspires" in sympathy with the disconsolate lover at his fruitless serenading.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
Up go the elm branches, out blow the sails, the old schooners rear and plunge, the grey waves in the hot Indian Ocean tumble sultrily, and then all falls flat again.
From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
