How to Use heat wave in a Sentence

heat wave

noun

• In the summer of 2022 a heat wave in London dried out the lakes in Crystal Palace Park.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Free 7-Eleven Slurpees are here just in time to fend off this summer's heat wave.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• The lingering drought and heat wave across the western and central U.S.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
• This kind of heat wave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Over the past decade, the country has faced increasing droughts, wildfires, and heat waves.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• This region of the Pacific has been under the grip of a marine heat wave since May.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Last summer saw brutal heat waves roil large parts of the country, which claimed at least 200 lives.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• As a dangerous heat wave hits the nation, Phoenix is poised to break its record for most 110-degree days.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Like many Americans, Michael Pittman had grown used to strains on the electric grid from summer heat waves or storms.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Nation/World The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
• Marine heat waves are killing sea life and fueling stronger storms.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
• Since this summer’s heat wave, Enochs and his team have been back to Cheeca Rocks as often as possible.
  — Alie Skowronski, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• During a heat wave last summer, one bill reached almost $600.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Central and southern China saw parts of the Yangtze River dry up amid its historic heat wave.
  — Naema Ahmed, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• During the summer heat wave, 95% of companies did shut down, Bratcher told me.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• It must be made using milk from cows that are grass-fed — a hurdle when pastures were destroyed as a heat wave swept the country this year.
  — Time, 1 Nov. 2022
• Radiator fans move air over the turbos in the valley of the V. Look in the rearview and heat waves distort everything behind you.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
• During a heat wave, hundreds of autoworkers died in plants in Michigan.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• In India, tomatoes prices soared more than 400% last month after scorching heat waves and heavy rains.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• And even then, the plants will have to contend with Europe’s intensifying heat waves.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
• The pair lamented the hot weather, noting that they wed during a heat wave, although that didn’t stop them from gushing about their big day.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• This is a great trick for especially sensitive plants that need a bit of extra care during the worst of heat waves.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
• At one point during a record-setting heat wave, the temperature rose to 97 degrees inside the house.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• Patton said his supplier is in Oregon, where crops were damaged from a heat wave last year.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
• Related:How are high school football teams dealing with Phoenix-area record heat wave?
  — Joshua Edler Davis, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
• During the last decade, these heat waves have grown more frequent and longer-lasting than at any time since record-keeping began more than 100 years ago.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
• What sort of returns can Wall Street expect from a library that gives away books for free, and serves as a cooling center during a heat wave?
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Unless both nations transition to clean energy, there will be no way to slow climate change — and the floods and heat waves that come with it.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• But Swift’s visit coincided with a dangerous heat wave that has ripped through the country over the past week.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• As temperatures rise, heat waves are more often sweeping the globe — and parts of the world are becoming too hot to survive.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024