Sample Sentences for
sultry
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(editor-reviewed)

sultry as in:  a sultry afternoon

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It was a sultry afternoon. I could barely breath.
sultry = hot and humid
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    The forecast is for another round of overnight storms followed by another sultry day.
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    In 1986, on the sultry spring weekend that Chris graduated from Woodson High School, Walt and Billie threw a party for him.  (source)
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    Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.  (source)
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    In the evening it grows sultry and the heat rises from the earth.  (source)
    sultry = hot and humid
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    The Summer Session—a few dozen boys being force-fed education, a stopgap while most of the masters were away and most of the traditions stored against sultriness—the Summer Session was over.  (source)
    sultriness = heat and humidity
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It was hot and sultry and Janie left the field and went home.  (source)
    sultry = hot and humid
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    And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.  (source)
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    The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.  (source)
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    It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads.  (source)
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    The day of the reaping's hot and sultry.  (source)
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    The sultry, salty air swirled into the room behind him.  (source)
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    Then the wind went again, it was hot and sultry as before.  (source)
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    It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.  (source)
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sultry as in:  a sultry voice

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I was captivated by her soulful, sultry voice.
sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire
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    She plays the role of a sultry jazz singer.
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    She described the transition of the "sexy American girl" from the classic blue-eyed blonde to the sultry brunette with brains and charm.
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    Hollywood movie posters displayed sultry actresses dancing with handsome, brown-skinned men in fields of marigolds.  (source)
    sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)
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    Bored out of her skull, she'd been taking pictures of herself in the booth for twenty minutes. This round, she'd made sultry, sex-kitten expressions.  (source)
    sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)
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    All things became confused: The sultriness and the desert, And lizards, and wellsprings and streams.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The storm-center gathered slowly around the peaks; low rumble and howl of thunder increased in frequence; slowly the light shaded as smoky clouds rolled up; the air grew sultrier, and the exasperating breeze puffed a few times and then failed.†  (source)
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    Night Had Hung a sultry, black curtain, sequined gold.  (source)
    sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire
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    I have no conscious memory of this first go-around in a temple, but some smell of incense, some play of light and shadow, some flame, some burst of colour, something of the sultriness and mystery of the place must have stayed with me.†  (source)
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    During dessert of boysenberry cream with savoiardi and steaming Romcaffe, Vittoria pressed her bare legs against his beneath the table and fixed him with a sultry stare.  (source)
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    The fog of sultriness still hung over the city, but ahead lay a fresh world of ruffled waters, and distant promontories with light-houses in the sun.†  (source)
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    Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.  (source)
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    The little flat was hot and stuffy under the August sun, and from the road beat up a malodorous sultriness.†  (source)
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    The kid peeled one side of his jacket open and gave me a fleeting glance of his sexy pictures: postcards of Hindi movies showing doe-eyed sultry actresses, fully dressed, in the arms of their leading men.  (source)
    sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)
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