SULTRY in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for SULTRY, such as:

1. The sultry nightmare was in the past.
2. The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
3. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
4. He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
5. The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.

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 Meanings and Examples of SULTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sultry
 a.  burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
Classic Sentence:
1  The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
2  It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
3  The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
4  After a while one got restless under it, as one does under the heat of a soft, sultry summer day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
5  The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
6  The sultry nightmare was in the past.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  It was a sultry, close day, the next day, as the steamer drew near to New Orleans.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  The heats of summer had driven all who were able to leave the sultry and unhealthy city, to seek the shores of the lake, and its cool sea-breezes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there was a dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
12  It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  There was about an hour still to lunch-time; the dewy morning had already given place to a sultry day.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
2  He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
3  The weather was still very heavy and sultry.
4  The sultry weather in the tropics encourages tourists to lead an indolent life.