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Recent Examples of sultry What could pair better with a dinner party than a crowd-pleasing red wine that’s a little sultry, thanks to a blend of earthy, spicy, and dark berry flavors. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025 The lariat is the sultry provocateur of the jewelry world, known for its ultra feminine design that elongates the neck and draws attention to the décolletage. Samantha Solomon, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2025 This fall, writer-director Bill Condon introduces a sultry new version of the embodiment of death in his take on Kander and Ebb's 1993 musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, itself based on a 1976 novel by Manuel Puig. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025 Indochine is a sultry swirl of tangerine booths and 1960s jazz. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sultry
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Adjective
  • Dry mode is great for laundry rooms where clothes need to dry on racks quickly, and continuous mode is ideal for basements that are continuously humid.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Mosquitoes are most active at dusk or dawn, especially after rainfall or in humid weather.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • High-temperature cooking methods such as grilling, broiling, roasting, frying and searing can increase AGE content in food up to 100-fold compared to uncooked versions, according to a 2004 Mount Sinai study that measured AGE content under laboratory conditions.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Use a clean, damp cloth to wipe away the vinegar residue or paste and any dye.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The truth is, even the words wrung from the damp cloth can be trustworthy, too.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
Adjective
  • In January 2018, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Keurig Green Mountain announced a merger, providing investors unique exposure to the fastest growing hot and cold beverage markets and their respective retail channels.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • It’s served hot, and the proper way to eat it is to squeeze some lemon juice, sprinkle it with spices like sumac and Aleppo pepper, and pile on a handful of parsley.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Please tell me the sequel could answer the most burning question of the ’00s: How could Austin not recognize Sam in that mask?
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Cooper, 30, asked Hargitay one more burning question about the actors' on-screen alter egos: will Olivia and Elliot ever end up together?
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Its cypress-incense essence and its molten oud feel half-spiritual, half-seductive.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Reports revealed that there was also a sigh of relief from those who had feared federal officials might be planning a last-minute retreat from the technique known as vitrification, in which waste is mixed with molten silicate and other materials to create inert glass logs.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Sultry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultry. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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