torrid
adjective
subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area.
torridly
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a word derived from
torrid.
Example Sentences
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The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking rage.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was torridly hot and softish to walk on.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Into that caldron with its furnace-cracked floor the sun had poured itself torridly for countless eons.
From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine
It was torridly hot, and softish to walk on.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The sun was now high overhead, and beat torridly upon the granite crags, which, as I clutched them, blistered my hands.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
