sweatbox
noun
sweat·box
ˈswet-ˌbäks 
Examples of sweatbox in a Sentence
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From the photos of the joint, Howard’s definitely looks like a sweatbox, and AceMo came prepared.
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Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
Those sweatbox sessions turn addicts into athletes, and athletes into CrossFit assassins.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
During a recent weekend stay in what is called the Dwarf’s Room — probably because the entrance to the bathroom is, for some reason, about four feet high — the heat was either off, and the room freezing, or on, and the room a sweatbox.
—David Segal, New York Times, 1 May 2023
How Beau gets home, eventually, provides the quest in writer-director Ari Aster’s sweatbox of anxieties.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
In this rickety sweatbox club, several micro-generations of musicians divined an experimental fusion of hip-hop, electronic, jazz, R&B and psychedelia.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
A year later, grander aspirations pushed him to open The Black Lodge, a thumping, subterranean sweatbox set clandestinely beneath Michelin-star chef Wayne Nish’s BL Burger Bar.
—Dan Q. Dao, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
The organizers’ long-term concern is the heat and humidity that turn Tokyo into a sweatbox in the summer.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
This underground sweatbox is a rite of passage for many Sydney clubbers.
—Jack Tregoning, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
Those sweatbox sessions turn addicts into athletes, and athletes into CrossFit assassins.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
During a recent weekend stay in what is called the Dwarf’s Room — probably because the entrance to the bathroom is, for some reason, about four feet high — the heat was either off, and the room freezing, or on, and the room a sweatbox.
—David Segal, New York Times, 1 May 2023
How Beau gets home, eventually, provides the quest in writer-director Ari Aster’s sweatbox of anxieties.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
In this rickety sweatbox club, several micro-generations of musicians divined an experimental fusion of hip-hop, electronic, jazz, R&B and psychedelia.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
A year later, grander aspirations pushed him to open The Black Lodge, a thumping, subterranean sweatbox set clandestinely beneath Michelin-star chef Wayne Nish’s BL Burger Bar.
—Dan Q. Dao, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
The organizers’ long-term concern is the heat and humidity that turn Tokyo into a sweatbox in the summer.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
This underground sweatbox is a rite of passage for many Sydney clubbers.
—Jack Tregoning, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
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