How To Use Swelter In A Sentence

As it was, we spent a couple of sweltering hours there and left.
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They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees.
As Hong Kong sweltered for the second day under smoggy skies, a health lobby group called on the government to reform its current air pollution health warnings saying they are inadequate.
If you thought that you were sweltering more than usual during February you were far from wrong.

Tennis stars play five-set matches in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
United forced to change press conference arrangements due to sweltering heat in a tiny room. The Sun
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. The Irish Mind
Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager.
And this is the one that I have been sweltering over this hot August week. Times, Sunday Times
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
Even a dunderhead knows that fans swelter in summer's bleachers and bundle in December's cold out of a love for the contests, not for sociological or business deconstructions.
The sweltering conditions will run into the middle of next week with the addition of the odd thunderstorm.
The World Cup overlaps the cricketing season here: the run-up to the sweltering summer months when sun-baked rice fields double as cricket stadiums in the suburban areas.
It was mid summer by now and the weather could be unbearable at times, the sweltering heat making you break out in a sweat.
Dying in sweltering heat when there aren’t 120 mile an hour winds and flooding outside blocking rescuers is just stupid. Schadenfreude as media bias « BuzzMachine
United forced to change press conference arrangements due to sweltering heat in a tiny room. The Sun
The relentless sweltering had gotten to all of us, kids and adults alike; we were short tempered and cranky and prone to starting fights over nothing.
Hong Kong sweltered yesterday in its hottest day so far this year with the mercury reaching a monstrous 37 degrees in the western New Territories and 34 degrees in urban areas.
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Thousands of tonnes of rotting rubbish form mountains on the streets in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, two survivors said.
His garish attire and self-composure only irked Seven further because she was currently sweltering in one of her light gray bodysuits, which rarely felt so restrictive. Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle
On a sweltering afternoon 110 years ago today, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Scott Miller: The McKinley Assassination and Terrorism Today
Last year, partly due to a sweltering summer, we guzzled 25 per cent more rosé wines than the year before.
It can feel freezing in the morning and sweltering by the afternoon. The Sun
They say that they will remove the masks only when the sweltering summer comes around - when they will be replaced by large sunglasses. Times, Sunday Times
The sweltering English summer of 1911 is one example. Times, Sunday Times
According to reports from Chris, who went out there a few days ago, the weather has ranged from sweltering to incapacitating.
ENGLAND are set to face sweltering conditions AGAIN tomorrow. The Sun
This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun.
Having to sit on stage in sweltering heat all day taking the brunt of increasingly short-tempered attendees is not going to be much fun.
He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat. War in Context
Many urbanites in southern Europe flee their sweltering cities for the mountains or coast in summer.
I was stone cold sober, and the room was sweltering.
In fiction, the sweltering heat has long been a powerful catalyst to characters behaving badly. Times, Sunday Times
a sweltering room
The air conditioning was broken, so the cab was sweltering.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of poor fishing people were still stuck in sweltering inland camps, patrolled by soldiers with machine guns and entirely dependent on relief agencies for food and water. Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
Give me some ice water,I'm going to swelter.
I'm a bit ill from the most recent increase in my Prazosin dosage, bad timing with this swelter. -06
On a sweltering sugar plantation, two brothers quarrel. Times, Sunday Times
Parts of the southern hemisphere are sweltering hot. Times, Sunday Times
Often, as I am sipping on a low-fat caffe latte in some fashionable bistro, I will look up and see a jogger stagger past, his sweltering torso festooned with tattoos, at least one reading "Only the Strong Survive. Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
Your soulmate is probably in Houston, Texas sweltering in the humid, hot as hell climate, while you're in Ireland, where I hear it occasionally gets colder than a well-digger's bum. All the Sad Songs
I only managed 616 words on "January 28, 1926," before the swelter of the office got to me. Howard Hughes vs. the Amazon Sales Rank
Sweltering heat and clammy weather can at times really put you off.
Every weekend during the sweltering month of August, from 1652 until 1866, the drains of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi were blocked so that the waters would overflow and flood much of Piazza Navona, a sort of aqueous reincarnation of the naumachiae, or mock naval battles, that were once staged on the same site more than a thousand years ago. Archive 2009-07-01
The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
It was a sweltering spring bank holiday, and he had not had long to prepare for such an auspicious moment.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
The sweltering weather is set to last a MONTH. The Sun
The reveille filled the air, the two Garda members ushered on the traffic and under the midday sweltering sun, the tricolour was raised, now flying proudly at full mast.
Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors.
There was a sweltering heat that prickled his back and the back of his neck.
Crammed into sweltering buses and sleek subway cars, pedaling their rusty bikes, they swarm to work.
Allied to the sweltering heat, the top class entertainment, amusements and facilities added to the successful event.
Almost overnight, it seems, pavement cafés have sprung up around the city and are the coolest places to be on sweltering afternoons.
It dawned hot and sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
I got to the top about 15 minutes before them but then I made a big mistake and took my hat off because I was sweltering.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
Test conditions have included a scramble along Glencoe's Aonach Eagach ridge and a two-day back pack in sweltering heat.
Teachers said they had to keep windows shut in sweltering conditions as they feared some pupils may be allergic to stings. The Sun
we were sweltering at the beach
At a very human level, televisions flickered off and air-conditioning units stopped whirring in sweltering heat.
A typical room was drafty and chilly in winter and humid and sweltering in summer.
They may be sweltering and risking dehydration at one moment then combating hypothermia as the wind swings round to the east.
It dawned hot and sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
There is a level of desperation provided in the performances, and the monochrome image sells the desert swelter very well.
Enjoy those sweltering days of summer in style, and what better way to do it than to hang out on the leafy deck of a beautiful house?
My stepsister and I would lie, terrified, in a sweltering hotel room, turning up our walkmans and longing for home where at least we had the sanctuary of our own bedrooms to escape the bitterness and shouting.
Hundreds of children sweltering in the heat went to the neighborhood pool.
The screaming fans couldn't compose themselves even in the sweltering heat.
While the north coast has sweltered under the hottest February sun for 100 years, the rains have arrived just in time to remind us it's winter sport sign-on.
School children are sweating it out with soaring summer temperatures and record levels of humidity leaving the region in a swelter.
On the downside it's 300 km from the sea, freezing in the winter, sweltering in the summer.
Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons.
‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
Over the summer Matt, from Rodbourne, completed the Athens marathon despite sweltering temperatures.
I got there early, left late, and was surrounded by swarms of nubile young tourists on a sweltering hot day and… ooh!
I'm not arguing that one should swelter in woolen knee socks during July and August. Generation Sock
Sweltering mist of changing shades slithered through the funnels and fissures of the ship, constantly spewing out balls of effusive film containing radioactive particles and radiant flares.
Traditional cave houses make a wonderfully cool retreat in Greece's sweltering summer heat. Times, Sunday Times
The sweltering English summer of 1911 is one example. Times, Sunday Times
One of the beach packed with visitors sweltering in Mediterranean-style sunshine.
We're located in Tucson AZ, the sweltering armpit of the southwest desert region, surrounded by the empty shafts of defunct cold-war missile silos.
Despite the sweltering heat, he was wearing trousers and a full-length shirt.
How they must look down at us sitting there, sweltering away in the morning sun, and laugh their heads off at us.
Serving on sweltering ironclads and steamers or on marginally seaworthy vessels required increased attention to medical care, nutrition, and morale for volunteer citizen-sailors.
From babies to grannies, everybody was enjoying themselves playing ball, building sandcastles or just basking in the glory of the sweltering rays.
The weather through late June and July was mostly sweltering, and nobody had much energy for games. EVERVILLE
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
When the weather is sweltering, how we long for the cooling respite of a dip in a swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
In the stables behind the house she who had carried him on his ride, having rummaged out her last grains of corn, lifted her nose and poked it through the bars of her loosebox to see what he was doing who had not carried her master that sweltering afternoon, and seeing that he was awake, she snorted lightly, to tell him there was thunder in the air. The Country House
Men lived and worked with volatile herbicides for ten days straight each fortnight, some over several years, in the sweltering monsoonal climate.
He finished up in a red-birded helmet, playing in a half-filled stadium in the sweltering Arizona desert. USATODAY.com - No return of the king: Emmitt Smith retires
The Gospel she shared with me was like a refreshing breeze in a sweltering summer.
The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
More than 30 of Japan's 54 reactors were idled over the summer, causing electricity shortages amid the sweltering heat. New PM: Japan should aim to reduce nuclear power
What I saw on that sweltering morning struck me like a thunderbolt. Times, Sunday Times
The locked-out crowd had two choices: remain uncomfortably warm in the plaza, or crowd into the box-office area and swelter unbearably.
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
The footage takes a closer look inside the rave party's sweltering ovens of bass and drugs.
In fiction, the sweltering heat has long been a powerful catalyst to characters behaving badly. Times, Sunday Times
As Hong Kong sweltered for the second day under smoggy skies, a health lobby group called on the government to reform its current air pollution health warnings saying they are inadequate.
Arpaio knows that the genteel class is willing to do just about anything to avoid having to serve time in the tents, where inmates are packed in like rats to swelter in the summer and get chilled to the bone in the winter. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Crazy Joe Arpaio Sh*t
As the blazing sun beats down on them, weary Confederates are ‘nauseated and dizzy from sunstroke and heat exhaustion’, unable to bear the sweltering heat and humidity of Pennsylvania.
Legend has it that apprentice salesmen must prove themselves by manning a winter coat stall in the sweltering month of August.
Once inside, the sound was muffled and the temperature sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
Answer: Try being fired at in sweltering temperatures in Afghanistan and see if that is fun. Killer Free On Shopping Spree « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The problem is, this part of the world seems to have gone into a holding pattern, glued into place by steamy days and sweltering nights that make anything but passive observation seem too athletic.
Thousands of tonnes of rotting rubbish form mountains on the streets in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
But the prospect of a prolonged sweltering heatwave this summer remains unlikely. Times, Sunday Times
This time the inner pane cracked and the third time the outer glass exploded too, allowing the cool night air to flow into the sweltering room. Times, Sunday Times
(CNSNews. com) – People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
It's 9: 15 on a sweltering September morning in San Francisco, and Guru.com's tunnel-like office space is coming to life.
On a sweltering sugar plantation, two brothers quarrel. Times, Sunday Times
Many urbanites in southern Europe flee their sweltering cities for the mountains or coast in summer.
Once inside, the sound was muffled and the temperature sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
At the rehearsal dinner, au contraire, I will have nothing between me and the elements except my kurta, and will have to hope for swelter. Archive 2009-05-01
In the summer, it's sweltering in the smaller classrooms.
It was sweltering hot, and she looked like she was wilting.
The sweltering weather is set to last a MONTH. The Sun
The breeze whipped through the room and made fire sway side to side over splintered wood as it shrieked and sweltered, then fell.
It was a 90-minute drive in a station wagon with no air-conditioning - four kids and two collies, everyone sweltering and carsick.
But stringing together seven straight wins, the number it takes for a Grand Slam title, on the rugged hardcourts in sweltering summer heat has made the gangly Kuerten look frail. USATODAY.com - Guga lacks intimidation factor
But the prospect of a prolonged sweltering heatwave this summer remains unlikely. Times, Sunday Times
Water replenishes the body's cooling system, enabling it to survive sweltering heat or elevated body temperature due to exercise.
The fire was so violent and hot that he could feel it's swelter from three blocks away.
With two of the Majors being played in sweltering heat each summer his excess poundage indicts him every time.
They had been packed together without air conditioning in the sweltering heat with nothing to eat nor to drink.
A fatigue has set in among the general public, and the last thing they want to do is to take to streets in the sweltering heat.
Inside of a month, the nation's football media will begin dramatizing the "sweltering" conditions in Berea, Ohio; De Pere, Wis. Post-gazette.com - News
When the weather is sweltering, how we long for the cooling respite of a dip in a swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
We sweltered along to the end of the Palace Pier, where Emma and her dad rode the rollercoaster (whilst Neil and I, wusses that we are, looked on).
Dallas hit 100 degrees for an unprecedented 70th day as Texas continued to swelter under record summer heat. What's News: World-Wide
Well, I had weathered the Oldreds department store, the Tescos supermarket and a schlepp around PC World, driving between each in sweltering sun.
They say that they will remove the masks only when the sweltering summer comes around - when they will be replaced by large sunglasses. Times, Sunday Times
A slim, wooden door separates the tiny coffee storefront from a handful of employees working in the swelter of the warehouse-style area, heated both by the summer weather and the industrial-size coffee roaster.
I was nine when she died clipping coupons at the kitchen table on a sweltering day.
This time the inner pane cracked and the third time the outer glass exploded too, allowing the cool night air to flow into the sweltering room. Times, Sunday Times
Now I'm back in sweltering Tempe, decidedly enjoying the A/C and still giving into my new sudoku addiction. Archive 2006-05-01
On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making The Other Girls
An aging water tank rises above the sheds that shelter the sheep from rain and the sweltering summer sun.
He had to deal with sweltering humidity, torrential rainstorms, former Khmer Rouge warlords and mischievous monkeys and elephants.
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Traditional cave houses make a wonderfully cool retreat in Greece's sweltering summer heat. Times, Sunday Times
Forget your lazy day at the beach; forget a sweltering day in the sun; I'm going sailing.
They are sitting, in sweltering silence, in a drab Fifties dining room, contemplating plastic tubs of brown mush - a bottle of red wine providing the only festive touch.
How he staggered along until the roads sweltered with the buzz and hum of speakers situated in trees, arranged on poles along concrete roads; spoken by speakers propped on low lying sandstone and speakers covered with the vacant nests of birds and speakers where chameleons lay sunning; speakers worn and spitting dead wires and wires sparking. The Clown Show
Look up, and you will be blinded by the sweltering sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
sweltering athletes
It can feel freezing in the morning and sweltering by the afternoon. The Sun
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Tennis stars play five-set matches in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
Many are forced into unpaid overtime as a penalty for being in a union as they toil in sweltering conditions to meet unrealistic targets. The Sun
At the rehearsal dinner, au contraire, I will have nothing between me and the elements except my kurta, and will have to hope for swelter. Jean's Knitting
As the globe warms, researchers warn they may be forced to swelter in burrows and under bushes with little time to eat, find mates or rear young.
When the weather is sweltering, how we long for the cooling respite of a dip in a swimming pool.
Cops rigged up ropes to reach the group in sweltering heat on Sunday. The Sun
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
Parts of the southern hemisphere are sweltering hot. Times, Sunday Times
A typical room was drafty and chilly in winter and humid and sweltering in summer.
It was a sweltering 140 degrees on the flight deck as we taxied our Prowler to the catapult for a late July launch into the skies of the Arabian Gulf.
What I saw on that sweltering morning struck me like a thunderbolt. Times, Sunday Times
ENGLAND are set to face sweltering conditions AGAIN tomorrow. The Sun
We were rained on hard enough to look for a second ark, we drove through three snowstorms in the mountains, we froze in a harsh Kansas wind, and we sweltered in southern Texas heat.
Across the aeons, temperatures have dipped and soared, plunged and sweltered - without the assistance of mankind.
In that same vein, you'll be working up a sweat without any effort in the sweltering August heat without air conditioning.
‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
Look up, and you will be blinded by the sweltering sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
Teachers said they had to keep windows shut in sweltering conditions as they feared some pupils may be allergic to stings. The Sun
Granted, here in Dublin it's a few degrees cooler than in Britain, but it's still sweltering by our standards.
Working in the train wasn't easy because there was no air conditioning and it was utterly sweltering.
The mercury reached a sweltering 107 degrees in Dallas on Sunday.
United forced to change press conference arrangements due to sweltering heat in a tiny room. The Sun
The men advanced in the sweltering, pitch-black night, scanning the landscape with night-vision goggles and armed with semiautomatic rifles fitted with silencers. Special Ops, Pig Patrol: Commando Wannabes Stalk Porky
Once inside, the sound was muffled and the temperature sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
Biltong is traditionally made from strips of springbok or kudu haunch, herbed, salted and left to cook-dry in the sweltering African sun.
Weighed down by deep crimson clothes and further hindered by a heavy golden cape, he could barely keep an upright bearing in the sweltering heat of the ocean.
Sandwiched between the frozen Tibetan plateau to the north and the sweltering Indian valley of Assam to the south, Bhutan is slightly larger than Switzerland, but with a population of just under 700,000 and much bigger mountains (its tallest peak, Gangkhar Puensum, at 24,741 feet, is the highest unclimbed summit in the world). Hidden Kingdom
As Coventry swelter in the heat, Mikkel Bischoff still maintains he made the right move in switching to the Ricoh Arena.
And it is not just office workers who will be suffering if the sweltering temperatures arrive.
Then they sat though speeches and performances till 1pm in sweltering heat. Comments by “Citizens against Trafficking” about Photo of Cambodian Sex Workers Protesting Law Enforcement Brutality « Bound, Not Gagged
Many are forced into unpaid overtime as a penalty for being in a union as they toil in sweltering conditions to meet unrealistic targets. The Sun
Three jobless men braved the sweltering heat on Wednesday and walked the 68 kilometres from Johannesburg to Pretoria demanding job creation and an end to what they called the manipulation of employment conditions and wages by trade unions. ANC Daily News Briefing
After the match is over and hooroos said, my father and mother stroll arm-in-arm up to sweltering Sandringham railway station, where we wait an eternity for a Flinders Street rocket.
The record high "swelter" lasted from July 21-26, making the string of unabated heat the longest high temperatures ever recorded in Wayne County, and residents endured the heat without benefit of air conditioning. Pal-item.com - Local News
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
On a sweltering hot day, May 31, 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived at the racecourse to be welcomed by a sea of pilgrims.
As Tokyo swelters in soaring temperatures, people are being invited to cool off by choosing from a variety of unusual flavours.
Gold miners often have to descend more than 3 kilometres underground to drill ore in sweltering narrow tunnels.
Still, temperatures in the low 90 s, with sweltering humidity, did produce some grumbling.
She concealed her arm beneath sweaters with sleeves that dangled loosely, even in sweltering weather.
We are not talking about the hordes of migrant workers dozing off in the gutters on sweltering street corners, but about the ubiquitous parasol.
The vicar, once more sweltering in his Liberace jacket, clapped his hands. TICKLED PINK
I wasn't marooned in a sweltering jungle somewhere in the tropics; rather, I was in a country without a single jungle, a country that intersects with the Arctic Circle, in fact, and I was seated in a hexagonal box.
This year the match was several weeks earlier than usual to avoid last year's swelter, Mr. Figueras explained. Horseplay for Haiti

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