Example Sentences

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He is also thirsty, with only a little over a liter of water provided to him a day, despite toiling deep underground in an open-pit mine that gets swelteringly hot.

From The Verge • Feb. 15, 2022

She spent the rest of the day sitting cross-legged on a mud floor inside a swelteringly hot room sewing the traditional shalwar kameez.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Sacred Chants Reverberating Once Again TBILISI, Georgia ON a swelteringly hot morning in this elegant capital city recently, worshippers crammed in the ornately frescoed sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010

It is swelteringly hot and teeming with shoppers hunting for bargains in the final days of the "top people's store" annual summer sale.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2010

It was swelteringly hot, as it always is there until the red sun goes down and all things get a chance to cool.

From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir