Examples of sweltering in a Sentence
the air conditioning was broken, and it was sweltering in the office
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Set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, Anna (Thompson) has becom reclusive, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor.
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2026
Households can program air conditioners to cool rooms before arriving home on sweltering summer days, or schedule pet feeders during extended holidays.
—New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2025
Thornton was told by a Madison Equities manager that a contractor had been assigned the task of fixing the unit and hopefully relieving his office of sweltering heat.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
On a sweltering August afternoon in 1918, on the fourth floor of a hat factory on east 93rd Street in Manhattan, a young Russian immigrant named Hyman Rosansky tossed anti-war flyers out the window to the street below.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2026
Households can program air conditioners to cool rooms before arriving home on sweltering summer days, or schedule pet feeders during extended holidays.
—New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2025
Thornton was told by a Madison Equities manager that a contractor had been assigned the task of fixing the unit and hopefully relieving his office of sweltering heat.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
On a sweltering August afternoon in 1918, on the fourth floor of a hat factory on east 93rd Street in Manhattan, a young Russian immigrant named Hyman Rosansky tossed anti-war flyers out the window to the street below.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Sweltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweltering. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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