SWELTER in a Sentence

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For SWELTER, below is one of 4 sentences:
I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through another hot and humid summer.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWELTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
swelter
 v.  be oppressed by heat; suffer terribly from intense heat
Classic Sentence:
1  Nothing less than two fat sweltering one-pound notes that seemed to have been on terms of the warmest intimacy with all the cattle-markets in the county.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
2  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through another hot and humid summer.
2  Hundreds of children sweltering in the heat went to the neighborhood pool.