sweat lodge
noun
plural sweat lodges
: a hut, lodge, or cavern heated by steam from water poured on hot stones and used especially by North American Indigenous people for ritual or therapeutic sweating
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Somebody please let them out of the sweat lodge.
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Jay Martel, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
The thing that had the biggest impact, however, was the sweat lodge, exactly like the one that almost killed Noella Bergener.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
Many indigenous groups on this continent whom settlers swindled, attacked, and displaced have a long history of using sweat lodges both for cleaning the body and in ritual.
—Madeline Leung Coleman, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026
Native American sweat lodge ceremonies are one example, as is acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine and panchakarma in ayurveda.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 18 Feb. 2026
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Jay Martel, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
The thing that had the biggest impact, however, was the sweat lodge, exactly like the one that almost killed Noella Bergener.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
Many indigenous groups on this continent whom settlers swindled, attacked, and displaced have a long history of using sweat lodges both for cleaning the body and in ritual.
—Madeline Leung Coleman, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026
Native American sweat lodge ceremonies are one example, as is acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine and panchakarma in ayurveda.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 18 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sweat lodge
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“Sweat lodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweat%20lodge. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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