Sample Sentences for
torrid
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torrid as in:  a torrid love affair

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They had a torrid love affair.
torrid = passionate
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    All of her affairs start torrid, but are short-lived.
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    Miri preferred her movies torrid and dark.  (source)
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    On the Sabbath, Friday nights, it was a thrill for me to pretend I was going downstairs to the kitchen and then creep into the store to pick up the torrid love notes he slipped under the door.  (source)
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    In this she was successful; when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked, the candle began to burn.  (source)
    torrid = passionate
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    Some lasted years; others were no more than a delightful afternoon. But all were torrid, mind you.  (source)
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    And then after a horrendous dry spell, I met Katherine XVI on the roof deck of a hotel in Newark, New Jersey, during an Academic Decathlon tournament in October of my junior year, and we had about as wild and torrid an affair as you can possibly have over the course of fourteen hours at an Academic Decathlon tournament, which is to say that at one point we had to kick her three roommates out of her hotel room so we could make out properly, but then even after I emerged from the…  (source)
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    Most of those nights they'd spent engaged in torrid activities, like having contests to see who could take the longest to eat a single Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.  (source)
    torrid = passionate (said ironically)
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    The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!  (source)
    torrid = passionate
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    I used to have a torrid crush on the Partridge girl from LA.  (source)
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    He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.  (source)
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    She wanted this last weekend to be everything summer could be…hot, hazy, torrid.  (source)
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    "If you must know," I replied, deadpan, "for the past six months I've been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi."  (source)
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    Where are the torrid fantasies?  (source)
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torrid as in:  the torrid noonday sun

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    We traveled by night, rested during the torrid days.
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    Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun, Roger received this news as an illumination.  (source)
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    It's even hotter up here, torrid, and the smell of perspiration makes him light-headed.  (source)
    torrid = very hot
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    The few times my reminiscing carried me back to that torrid afternoon, what I remembered first was the belt.  (source)
    torrid = hot
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    His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.  (source)
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    Beer had never been my favorite, but it tasted fine, ice-cold, on such a torrid day.  (source)
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    It was a foul day, torrid and hazy; hotter than the hinges of Hades, as Walter would say...  (source)
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    We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.  (source)
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    That darkness in which resolutions have to be made--it isn't merely local; it's the same darkness that exists in the fiercest clearnesses of torrid Messina.  (source)
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    The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.  (source)
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    But in that confident prophecy Chang was wrong, for less than a month after his arrival at Shangri-La Conway received a second summons to that torrid upper room.  (source)
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    The ashes under the grate were lit by the fire vertically, like a torrid waste.  (source)
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    There was a slow, torrid beat of her pulse.  (source)
    torrid = hot (possibly troubled)
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torrid as in:  at a torrid pace

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    Her torrid schedule left little time for personal life.
    torrid = hurried
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    Nestor had taken six wickets for twenty-five runs in a torrid spell of pace bowling, and four of those were by catches I took standing well behind the wicket.  (source)
    torrid = fast or hurried
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    I felt traumatized, embarrassed, trapped in my own emotionally torrid world.  (source)
    torrid = full of difficulty
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    As it was, he could only stare into Teeleh's torrid eyes and fight his own terror.  (source)
    torrid = terrible (filled with difficulty)
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    Mr. Bagnet is an exartilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the fibres of a coco-nut, not a hair upon his head, and a torrid complexion.  (source)
    torrid = troubled
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