How To Use Torrid In A Sentence

It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
What people most long for in ogling the screen is to witness some torrid lascivious scene: the incentives to gaze are supremely lubricious.
That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
If your summers veer towards the torrid, a soft coat low e with a lower SHGC may be a more sensible strategy.

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An added incentive, if any, is the air-conditioning environment of the computer institutes offering the much-needed respite from the torrid summer.
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In all, it was a torrid day for Spanish cycling. Times, Sunday Times
That was the beginning of a short but torrid affair with hybrid bearded irises. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished. Marietta A Maid of Venice
Here was evidence of a glacial and a torrid period, separated by an aeonic gulf; but how the remains came to be piled one upon another in this way is a secret of the ancient earth. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
I was indulging in the torrid heat of a thermal bath…
These guys are luscious-haired, stubbly, torrid and tattooed, and often look as if they've tipped up with a hangover.
The title chimes with his managerial re-emergence at West Bromwich Albion after a torrid 191 days in charge of Liverpool. Roy Hodgson has no self-pity after his re-emergence at West Brom
They certainly looked like a team full of self-belief, were fast out of the traps and gave their hosts a torrid time early on. The Sun
The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It has highly variable landforms, that range from torrid plains, tropical islands, and a parched desert to the highest mountain range in the world.
I love a torrid affair. Times, Sunday Times
Richard Burton, is a living proof that intense work, mental and physical, sojourn in torrid and frozen climes, danger from dagger and from pestilence, 'age' a person of good sound constitution far less than may be supposed .... The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
When the summer gets torrid, its time to go on long holidays, preferably tourist packages, to places where it is much cooler and peaceful.
hot trumpets and torrid rhythms
Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars -- dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune -- and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses. Cabbages and Kings
We all know we're going into a pretty torrid time next year and the people who are going to suffer most are those with less money. Times, Sunday Times
His departure would come after a torrid summer in which he has been harshly criticised for allowing a series of swingeing cuts in hospital services throughout Scotland.
To many observers, India's torrid economic growth looks like a recent event.
Good judgement of conditions, an early start and a fast, efficient ascent are essential to avoid such torrid descent.
Lightweight seersucker check with embroidered tops and knits to match falls right in place this torrid summer.
By just about every standard, from GDP growth to consumer confidence, the U.S. economy is in the midst of a torrid turnaround.
This being the movies, naturally a torrid love story sparks the lulls between battles and cannonfire.
Beautifully textured, sensuous and skin-friendly, it is cool in torrid Indian summers and keeps one warm in winter.
The blunder comes after the Co-operative Group has suffered a torrid couple of years. The Sun
Israel has two distinct long-term disadvantages to her survival that all other nuclear powers thankfully lack - horrid demographics and a torrid, passionate subsidized relationship with a sugar daddy, in this case America. LewRockwell.com
The prose of Marías wraps long sentences and hyperbatons in a more torrid embrace than ever in his reiterations.
Kumble displayed endurance, skill and enthusiasm in equal measure to pick up seven wickets on a day where he had to bowl 35.3 overs in torrid conditions.
That was the beginning of a short but torrid affair with hybrid bearded irises. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The report does, however, portray a torrid tale of arrogance and incompetence by the company's management.
She and Gary face some torrid love scenes ahead, however, and we think things might be getting a little interesting on the set right now.
Faced with heavy losses due to flagging demand, there was talk of drastic reductions in spring last year, but nobody was prepared to take the lead, and, in the end, a torrid summer saved them from having to do so.
We met and fell in love and had a torrid passionate affair.
Youths held a long banner overlooking the strong-smelling grave in torrid heat.
The torrid heat of the vintage actually enriched lesser red appellations and endowed them with abundant fruit and body.
The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary. DesignerBlog
If that's the case, prepare for another torrid week. Times, Sunday Times
Most come with torrid messages of love expressed in poetry.
the torrid heat of the noonday sun
But a little while ago I did get them out and look at them and they were pretty torrid love letters.
The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time.
The U.S. economy almost certainly won't keep up the third quarter's torrid pace.
Their masters, too, were reeling under the torrid heat.
Having spent much of his coaching career in the heat of Turkey's torrid arenas, the Peterhead manager, proved himself a surprising dab hand with the snow-shovel as he mucked in on Friday night.
After walking almost three miles, Reeve telephoned to raise the alarm and 10 members of Torridon Mountain Rescue team were called out.
Vaughan 6 Had a torrid first half against McSporran and was continually outpaced, but fought back well.
He thus tasked himself to extraction from what was not, oddly enough, a torrid steamy love affair with an accountant.
Lured by its 'classy'-but-torrid R&B vocals and designer-label flaunting, champagne swigging, no-trainers-allowed ethos of living large, much of Jungle's black audience has defected to this most recent dancefloor mutation. The Wire
A kindly old man takes him in and teaches him how to shoot a gun - a skill that will come in handy - then dies, leaving behind a lissome granddaughter, Alphonsine, with whom Georges has a torrid but meaningless affair.
Tourists visiting Bangalore to get away from the torrid heat in cities such as Chennai and Hyderabad are now forced to endure the same unfavourable weather conditions here as well, though minus the humidity.
He's betting that the Chinese economy will keep roaring along at its present torrid pace, at a time when many analysts believe China is set to slow, or maybe even overheat.
In the days before her wedding, after college graduation, she finds herself being drawn into the classic ‘torrid affair’ with a roustabout at a carnival.
Their dominions were bounded by the Adriatic and the Tigris; and the whole interval of twenty-five days’ navigation, which separated the extreme cold of Scythia from the torrid zone of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Once upstairs, it was a torrid and passionate night for both.
Each game will probably be like Thursday, the two in torrid conflict, until one team finally cracks. USATODAY.com - Spurs grease Pistons in Game 1
For iron ore producers, these have been a torrid few months. Times, Sunday Times
In no time at all, both are head-first into a torrid, steamy love affair.
Their falling out is torrid and serious stuff, but the director's sense of playfulness leavens the tone.
Those unlucky of not having the time or the inclination to go to Goa's golden beaches, take heart from the Coconut lagoon, for it will provide similar respite and comfort from the torrid summer.
The village faces west to a distant horizon formed by Skye and the Torridon mountains, a glorious prospect.
That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
She resists his advances for a while, but soon succumbs, and the two begin a torrid and wind-swept romance that carries on throughout the war.
The second question, in these torrid days of the shareholder spring, could be more tricky. Times, Sunday Times
But the F1 business, for which the company is best known, had a torrid year financially.
Orwell composed that novel of aching remembrance in torrid Morocco, so I make no apology for saying that McEwan put me in mind, twice, of John Keats as he gazed on the work of ancient Attica: “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.” Think of England
I had carried Nat forth into the glade before the hut, where the sun might fall on him temperately, after a torrid day -- torrid, that is to say, on the heights, but in our hollow, pight about with the trees, the air had clung heavily. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
The new constituency would stretch from Port Isaac bay in Cornwall to Bideford bar, a sandbank in the Taw-Torridge estuary in Devon. Cornwall-Devon boundary may change
n. - one without a shadow: applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, where the sun is vertical at noon for a few days every year aseismic adj. - free from earthquakes; designed to withstand earthquakes. aseismatic, adj. reducing or withstanding effect of earthquakes. Xml's Blinklist.com
The former Liverpool striker has had a torrid time in front of goal recently but he put his barren spell firmly behind him with what turned out to be the winner at St James' Park.
This was another torrid night for one of football's most likeable characters. Times, Sunday Times
Las Vegas is famous for gambling, sex, torrid heat and gigantic men in posing trunks in pursuit of stardom.
It has been a torrid few days for sterling. Times, Sunday Times
The hub of the show, and the principal element that has maintained its longevity, was the torrid love affair between Gomez and Morticia.
Given the nature of the protagonists, it was hard to believe the tales of a torrid, adulterous affair were true.
During the 1989-90 recession, for example, there was a torrid need for financial consultants as companies downsized.
This reptile is probably the torrida dipsas of antiquity. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
The chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Assn. is worried enough about the torrid housing market to get out of it.
It is quite simple: the region remains sufficiently unquiet for Nato to commit large ground forces and if Albright's hot spring turns into a torrid summer, then large numbers of them will find themselves in action, some never to return.
The blunder comes after the Co-operative Group has suffered a torrid couple of years. The Sun
It seems, however, from the facts before us that the different zones on the sun, corresponding to what we call the torrid and temperate zones on the earth, persist in rotating with velocities which gradually decrease from the equator towards the poles. The Story of the Heavens
Her brother, in a casual remark, later refers to her torrid past.
Couples - if indeed women are intending to take their partners - are likely to have a torrid experience. Times, Sunday Times
JOHANNESBURG -- Kumba Iron Ore, one of the smaller participants in the global seaborne iron ore mining franchise, had a ripsnorter 2009 year, which hardly went unnoticed by 64% shareholder Anglo American, which has generally had a torrid year. WN.com - Articles related to Steel prices to rise 20% in China
Furthermore, he has managed to steady the ship following the torrid days of early summer when he was being pilloried for everything from opera to poorly chosen kilts.
The central region, lying beneath the track of the sun, was termed the torrid zone; the two regions between the tropics and the polar circles were termed the temperate zones, and the remaining parts, between the porlar circles and the poles, the frigid zones. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
John Williams, who had being giving their full back a torrid time, did exceptionally well to get to the by-line and pull the ball back to me.
He spent the torrid summer in Changchun, northeast China.
a torrid love affair
So he stood there with his bag in his hand, braving the torrid summer heat for three hours.
Leaving the Taw and crossing the country to the south, and a little to the west, one reaches the Torridge, and Torrington, a town 'built scatteringly, lying at length, as it were, upon the brow of a hill hanging over the river.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
He became less of a stranger later, and more of a boy who I would have a torrid love affair with.
The thermometer ranges from below zero in the winter to above 100 on torrid summer days when scorching winds sandblast the canyons.
It's been a torrid time and I hope he gets back to enjoying life. The Sun
Or to put it a nicer way, they are engaged in a torrid yet tragic love affair.
Instead, they make torrid love in Maria's apartment, a supremely erotic scene that finds rapture in the contortions of Morton's face.
China added $200 billion to that stockpile in the last three months of the year alone, as the country socked away capital from the rest of the world at a torrid pace. Wonkbook: NCLB reform coming; Boehner opposes new gun laws; John Kerry's speech; oil spill recommendations
Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece.
Seles, the victim of a death threat earlier this week, has had a torrid time during the Championships.
‘A secret, torrid love affair,’ Tori swooned falsely, winning a laugh from Jacquelyn and Ramona.
She began a torrid love affair with a theatrical designer.
Whether in the torrid months of summer, the pouring rains of the monsoon season, or the cold winters of the North, it's always tea time in India.
It does not take into account the environmental cost and the psychological burden of torrid growth.
Katie, 34GG, has exclusively revealed the kiss-and-tell details of her torrid affair with a senior House of Commons official, and how its discovery has led to her massive tabloid payday acrimonious separation from Andre. Archive 2009-05-01
Dolan admitted the torrid conditions had made life difficult, especially with Cheltenham firing in a number of dangerous crosses.
Right: The final rib gives pleasant climbing on immaculate Torridonian sandstone.
Overall sales for the quarter rose by 0.6 per cent to 83.7 million, the chocolatier announced, capping a torrid year. Times, Sunday Times
He thus tasked himself to extraction from what was not, oddly enough, a torrid steamy love affair with an accountant.
Seles, the victim of a death threat earlier this week, has had a torrid time during the Championships.
After a torrid Leinster league campaign that saw the side barely survive in the top flight the Blues have put together a great cup run to reach their second successive final.
Ride through the neighborhoods on any hot summer night and you'll quickly bear witness to our city's torrid love affair with playground roundball.
It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans). Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The blunder comes after the Co-operative Group has suffered a torrid couple of years. The Sun
A section of men, including small boys, have their days in the torrid heat in the city that has now worn a festoon ambience for its favourite month, ‘Chithirai’.
The fabled state of Kashmir lies in majestic isolation amid the towering mountain ranges of the Himalayas and Karakoram that separate the torrid plains of north India from the steppes and deserts of Central Asia. Eric Margolis: Almost Forgotten: The World's Most Dangerous Conflict
The perfect pit stop for weekenders shuttling between the dramatic scenery of Loch Torridon and the quirky exotic gardens at Inverewe, Gairloch's friendly Old Inn is set back from the village's small harbour in a pretty valley.
a torrid dance
We met and fell in love and had a torrid passionate affair.
Financials, of course, had a torrid time. Times, Sunday Times
This part of the ocean may be called the Elysian Fields of Neptune's empire; and the torrid zone, notwithstanding Ovid's remark, "non est habitabilis æstu," is rendered healthy and pleasant by these gently-blowing breezes. Wanderings in South America
She would expose his torrid affair to the press somehow and all the bad press would force Jamie to ask him to step down.
Right: The final rib gives pleasant climbing on immaculate Torridonian sandstone.
She began a torrid love affair with a theatrical designer.
By now she was regarding me coolly, no doubt imagining torrid affairs. Times, Sunday Times
In 1936, the newly minted but not yet crowned Edward VIII was having a torrid affair with a twice divorced American lady named Wallis Simpson.
They certainly looked like a team full of self-belief, were fast out of the traps and gave their hosts a torrid time early on. The Sun
As ‘Marriage and Murder’ showed, torrid passions could still burn in cold climates - even Winnipeg's.
Chisholm's departure would come after a torrid summer in which he has been harshly criticised for allowing a series of swingeing cuts in hospital services throughout Scotland.
Indeed, Bangalore's economy is growing at a torrid 10% annual clip - twice the national average.
Public confidence is fragile after a torrid year that has seen a surge in the price of basic commodities. Times, Sunday Times
Other than a few torrid one night affairs, I was never serious with anyone else.
When you do feel comfortable with someone, though, your torrid sexual appetite will make him very happy.
My body, overheated from the torrid hotness and sexual cravings glistened from excessive perspiration.
These two soon begin a torrid affair, making love under Albert's nose at the restaurant.
He ended a long, torrid day besieged by bad news. Times, Sunday Times
As the investigation unfolds, the torrid passion of the Victorian poets is played out before our eyes, with Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle in full period dress, eating up the screen in a flurry of heaving bosoms and trembling lips.
A torrid Christmas is only part of their difficulties, as we explain on page four.
That was the beginning of a short but torrid affair with hybrid bearded irises. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
They were instrumental in the rejuvenation of the river Torridge which was, at the time, heavily polluted by farm effluent.
“The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.” Westward Ho!
A friend of mine has two boy cats, both neutered, who are enjoying a torrid if sexless love affair.
True, the city's new economy is unlikely to keep up its current torrid growth tempo.
The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
A kindly old man takes him in and teaches him how to shoot a gun - a skill that will come in handy - then dies, leaving behind a lissome granddaughter, Alphonsine, with whom Georges has a torrid but meaningless affair.
The minister suffered yet another torrid day of criticism.
To-morrow I shall drive to breakfast, seeing Paris continuously unfolding, prospect after prospect, green swards, white buildings, villas engarlanded; to-day I drive to breakfast through the white torridities of Rue Blanche. Memoirs of My Dead Life
Surely, there can't be a more torrid time than summer.
The same Sunday Times which, in among exposés of torrid love affairs between teachers and schoolgirls in country towns, in among pictures of pouting starlets in exiguous bikinis, comes out with revelations of atrocities committed by the security forces, reports that the minister of the interior has granted a visa allowing Breyten Breytenbach to come back to the land of his birth to visit his ailing parents. From 'Summertime': Notebooks 1972–1975
Gap continues to add hundreds of new stores at a torrid pace despite the sluggish economy and signs of market saturation.
That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
The blunder comes after the Co-operative Group has suffered a torrid couple of years. The Sun
After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck.
The moistened earth, when heated by the rays of the sun, diffuses the musky odor common in the torrid zone to animals of very different classes, to the jaguar, the small species of tiger-cat, the cabiai, the gallinazo vulture, the crocodile, the viper, and the rattlesnake. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
The patrician, who has confessed to wearing ‘Levi jeans and jumpers’ at weekends, has faced a torrid time at the company since assuming the role nine months ago.
It was a rare moment of defiance from Sri Lanka on a torrid day. The Sun
The equatorial region of the earth, otherwise known as the torrid clime, was considered impassable by ship. Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds
Looked set for a torrid afternoon when booked after two minutes, but recovered his poise and was largely untroubled. Times, Sunday Times

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