sweltering
adjective
suffering oppressive heat.
swelteringly
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a word derived from
sweltering.
Example Sentences
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Seated on the overpass on a swelteringly hot day, the 32-year-old said he picked his particular strip of sidewalk for the shade it gets from the elevated 110 Freeway carpool lane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
The tents were freezing cold in the winter and have been swelteringly hot this summer, with temperatures rising as high as 122 degrees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
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
But the chorus went on: "And just as swelteringly monogamic in Port Said as in Brum."
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis
