sultry

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The forecast is for another round of overnight storms followed by another sultry day.

In 1986, on the sultry spring weekend that Chris graduated from Woodson High School, Walt and Billie threw a party for him.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The day of the reaping's hot and sultry.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

These furious thoughts whirled around in Harry's head, and his insides writhed with anger as a sultry, velvety night fell around him, the air full of the smell of warm, dry grass, and the only sound that of the low grumble of traffic on the road beyond the park railings.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

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) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

The sultry, salty air swirled into the room behind him.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, 2008

The air that came in through the window was sultry; it made Dustfinger drowsy.  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

With the sun hanging low, the air had none of the sultry humid heat of the coast, and I caught the scent of conifers drifting down from the mountains.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, Dear John, 2006

In the evening it grows sultry and the heat rises from the earth.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

It was hot and sultry and Janie left the field and went home.  (source) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Then the wind went again, it was hot and sultry as before.  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

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) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

She plays the role of a sultry jazz singer.

She described the transition of the "sexy American girl" from the classic blue-eyed blonde to the sultry brunette with brains and charm.

Hollywood movie posters displayed sultry actresses dancing with handsome, brown-skinned men in fields of marigolds.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

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) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

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) Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars, 1914

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) Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars, 2006

All things became confused: The sultriness and the desert, And lizards, and wellsprings and streams.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

Night Had Hung a sultry, black curtain, sequined gold.  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Crank, 2004

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) Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

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) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1897

The little flat was hot and stuffy under the August sun, and from the road beat up a malodorous sultriness.†  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

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) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003