Use "swelter" in a sentence

1. She knew that from magazine pictures, a city with two rings of glass and grown towers, miles around, sweltering in the jungle, with lemphs running in cages turning big slow fans that hung from the ceilings

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2. It was utterly inhumane, especially in the sweltering heat that time of the year

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3. It was sweltering hot in the house, and I needed to air out the stench of unwashed freak that had been building for years

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4. But he appreciated the suggestion anyway, and began daydreaming about icepacks and cool baths to pass the sweltering afternoon

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5. So few wagons had been shipped that there was no transportation for their effects, and as regiment after regiment was rushed to the front, the men, labouring in the sweltering heat, discarded articles mile by mile, until they had nothing but the clothes they stood upright in, and the route of the advance resembled the trail of a retreating army

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6. There was/is one major difference however, that, compared with modern standards, ethnic neighborhoods, however rundown, were generally safer, crime was lower, immigrant classes better educated, families more tightly knit, homes cleaner, children smiled more and engaged in sidewalk games, neighbors gathered on stoops on sweltering summer evenings, unemployment was lower and drugs virtually

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7. He and his men marched in blistering heat through the pine forests along the wide coastal plain, extending inland one hundred sweltering miles before the first low hills

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8. What scorching question is sweltering in your mind?”

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9. Once past the peak of the half-moon bridge our tasks eased, and we managed to stumble into a shelter on the island, dropping the sacks but retaining our sweltering hoods

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10. A sweltering day like this was a signal to down tools and head for the pub

11. The sweltering heat shimmered off the brick streets

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12. She popped up and strode quickly across the room, standing like a petrified creature as she felt the sweltering breeze from the metal fan against her skin actually send chills down her spine

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13. around town that hot sweltering day

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14. that there’s a Beagle who’s sweltering inside a van without any

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15. So what if nobody was about? It was the middle of the afternoon and many people took their siesta round about now; people always shunned the sweltering heat of the midday Smug and dozed in the cool of their shacks

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16. ” All along I thought a Mercedes Benz was a luxury car! I bet the people in the car are sweltering with no air conditioning and they’re probably sitting on orange crates

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17. Despite the sweltering heat from which she was protected, she remained perfectly cool in her formal silk afternoon dress that matched her hat exactly and that she had worn on many occasions to make her afternoon calls to the landed aristocracy in London prior to the war

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18. The features here were quite the same—a large brick-and-stone church with ivy climbing up the sides, tall stained glass windows, a dark belfry, a cemetery dating back at least 150 years where the church builders were undoubtedly interred, and the quaint gardens surviving remarkably well given the heat and the sweltering sun which seared down upon the delicate flowers despite the preponderance for precipitation back at the beach

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19. The days were sweltering in the mid thirties and the water was a clear, warm twenty-six

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20. toil for a living while being exposed to the sweltering elements

21. “I'll tell you what,” he said as he panted in the sweltering heat

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22. The constant vigil was boring, nothing was happening on the Ocean Raider, his cramped cabin was sweltering even with the windows and hatches open

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23. He also thought about the recent steep climb up to the waterfall, in sweltering heat

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24. The sweltering population on earth and the vanishing of

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25. His head and shoulders now passed into the darkness of this sweltering hell

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26. The afternoon was sweltering hot outside their air-conditioned car, and the traffic through the city was painfully slow

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27. Despite the sweltering heat, he was still wearing his signature black trench coat that had been given to him as a token of appreciation from the entire force after he had solved a bizarre case that had placed the department’s reputation in question

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28. The pond looked enticing on that sweltering early evening and Thom hadn’t seen a bath in ages, it seemed, so he went for a swim

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29. It was a sweltering day and the shade of the trees was welcome, as they entered the rear of the car

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30. The Four Oaks was aptly named for the four enormous oak trees located on the property, one on each corner, which served as a parasol by providing shade from the sun’s sweltering heat regardless of the time of day

31. The brass doorknob was oddly cold like solid ice, invigorating the nerves in his fingertips that instinctively sought to recoil, contrasting sharply with the sweltering summer heat

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32. Eddie Brickel sat in the sweltering heat and sweltered

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33. Two hundred and fifty kilometres to the south Greg’s best man was sweltering in the heat of Auckland and enjoying the benefits of an unexpected day off

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34. The rise of her breasts against him was monstrous and sweltering

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35. They ran on, sweating and breathing hard in the sweltering heat of the yellow sun and the closeness of the grass stalks

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36. It all begins on a sweltering Wednesday in The End Of All Things As Told By

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37. After grappling with Bombay’s gripping humidity for a week, the Raja Raos had to encounter New Delhi’s sweltering heat that June-end

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38. vacation? You want me to believe that in sweltering heat, you really are going around in a

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39. of Negro slaves who had been scarred in the flames of sweltering

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40. state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat

41. escaping the smelly and sweltering heat

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42. It was I who was the victim of my sweltering

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43. “Why did you have to give birth to him in a sweltering afternoon at the end of June?” he

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44. enjoys this sweltering summer weather

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45. One who seeks the help of magicians, whoever they pretend to be and whatever clothing they wear before people, is indeed like one who resorts to a rebellious devil or turns to fire for help from sweltering heat

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46. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice

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47. It is a sweltering day already

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48. He’d thought he was alone in the sweltering, afternoon heat

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49. That loud and sweltering city was, by its hot dulness, to bore her into awareness of him, to toss her by sheer elimination of other interests to his breast

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50. However the sweltering deity evaded him without any fuss and kept

51. both happy to leave the sweltering confi nes of the mine

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52. Driving back out to Caulfield, sweltering despite the efforts of the valiant car air conditioner to compensate for the high thirties outside, Lester decided to call in on his Oakleigh Bank

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53. Short holiday! In the slums, in the sweltering heat, in the monsoon

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54. In the evenings, the sound of the frothing, phosphorescent waves and the fresh sea breeze after a sweltering day in the sun restored the energy that was sapped in the daytime

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55. Nothing less than two fat sweltering one-pound notes that seemed to have been on terms of the warmest intimacy with all the cattle-markets in the county

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56. Claire went up one floor and took the skybridge, which was part of an eighteen-building, ten-block project to help tourists navigate the convention corridor without passing out in the sweltering summer heat

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57. If you’re curious, that balance point was a sweltering 41°C

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58. Ralph was wearing his armour and had been sweltering in the heat, so the rainstorm had been welcome

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59. Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer

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60. The sweltering heat continued to build over the East Coast and over much of America that week, but the boys weren’t going to let a little heat keep them from taking a bite of the Big Apple

61. ” And he wasn’t much impressed by the hot, sweltering citizens of Greater New York either: “People in New York are all very tired looking, pale, & soft

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62. He had been through the sweltering burrows, finding everywhere quick breathing and feverish pulses; and

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63. Phil and Louie lay in sweltering silence, thinking that at any moment they’d be dragged out and beheaded

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64. On a sweltering day at the height of the summer of 1946, he boarded a train for Tokyo

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65. So here I sit in my sweltering house, trying not to think about Megan

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66. I am sweltering in this damned heat

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67. Sustained snores came from the cart-house, where some of the men were lying down; the grunt and squeal of sweltering pigs arose from the still further distance

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68. This was in the fall of 1974, a sweltering day in September

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69. Or even walking, it’s a nice night”—which it wasn’t, it was a sweltering, tropical, miserable night, with the gunpowder stink of the fireworks just ended, and already, out of the humid desertion of post-celebratory streets, a cab had materialized, a big yellow answer to a question Mercer didn’t know how to formulate

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70. It is sweltering up here

71. I had the uncomfortable feeling that Thomas Pierce was watching us, or that I might suddenly come upon him in the dense, sweltering crowds

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72. She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move, and the uniform she’d stolen became heavy and sweltering, sticking to her sweat-covered skin

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73. In heat that was so sweltering the judge moved the sitting out of doors, the court listened to arguments not about what went on in a high school classroom but about the very existence of God and the authority of the Bible

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74. I bow to the west and kiss the ground Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner and promise that I will do zakat, I will do namaz, I will fast during Ramadan and when Ramadan has passed I will go on fasting, I will commit to memory every last word of His holy book, and I will set on a pilgrimage to that sweltering city in the desert and bow before the Ka'bah too

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75. On some sweltering summer noons, Cecy would live in an amoeba, darting, vacillating, deep in the old tired, philosophical dark waters of a kitchen well

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76. On some sweltering summer noons, Cecy would live in an amoeba, darting, vacillating, deep in the old tired philosophical dark waters of a kitchen well

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77. The trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix was a sweltering one, crossing, as it did, the Mojave Desert on a broiling yellow day

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78. The sweltering noons dissolved the old priest back into a stupor of sweat and vinegar-gnat mean

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79. The trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix was a sweltering one, crossing, as it did, the Mojave desert on a broiling yellow day

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80. Manhattan book editor Richard Sherman, thirty-eight, dispatches his wife and son to the Maine coast for the summer to escape the sweltering city heat

81. ” She knew it was, because she had seen the white lumps in the mouths of the sweltering corpses, but she noted that none of them had the coup de grace in the back of the neck as they had at the time of the balloon

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82. Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well

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