Sample sentences for SULTRY - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
a sultry afternoon

Definition

hot and humid

sultry = hot and humid

Other Uses (with this meaning)

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

sultry = hot and humid

sultry = hot and humid

In the evening it grows sultry and the heat rises from the earth.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

sultry = hot and humid

It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

sultry = hot and humid

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

sultry = hot and humid

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.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

sultry = hot and humid

Aunt Sally jumped for her, and most hugged the head off of her, and cried over her, and I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was getting pretty sultry for us, seemed to me.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

sultry = hot and humid (figuratively)

The air that came in through the window was sultry; it made Dustfinger drowsy.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart

sultry = hot and humid

It was hot and sultry and Janie left the field and went home.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

sultry = hot and humid

2 —as in:
a sultry voice

Definition

expressing or arousing sensual desire — especially in reference to a woman's appearance or voice

sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire

Other Uses (with this meaning)

sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire

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

sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire

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.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)

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.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

sultry = expressing or arousing sensual desire

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

sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)

Night Had Hung a sultry, black curtain, sequined gold.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

sultry = sexy (expressing or arousing sensual desire)

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