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Significats de sultry en anglès

Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity.

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(About the weather) Hot and humid.

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Examples for "stifling"
Examples for "stifling"
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So many issues at the polls today across the country, stifling democracy.
News.com.au
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We want to hear your examples of big data stifling workplace creativity.
BBC
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The cold air in the railway van grows thicker and more stifling.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
4
The bees and wasps circled busily around humming in the stifling atmosphere.
Mother
5
She felt herself stifling in the wagon and flung aside the covering.
The Fighting Shepherdess
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That particular work, Ignatius thought, was rather lacking in the sensual department.
A Confederacy of Dunces
2
Reconnecting to our sensual sides, apparently, is one way to combat this.
The Irish Times
3
It had in it, nevertheless, a faint and undefinably sensual quality also.
In a glass darkly
4
We will call the lower plane the sensual, the upper the spiritual.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
5
The mouth is primarily the gate of the two chief sensual centers.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
1
The very clouds that hide the sun are full of sulphurous heat.
The Great Impersonation
2
The sulphurous stream of Albula suggests to him several passages of Martial.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
3
Much steam issues from the many fissures, accompanied by sulphurous acid gas.
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes
4
Of all the players, the criticism of him was the most sulphurous.
The Irish Times
5
A bucket of sulphurous chemicals might be the least noxious of it.
Speaks the Nightbird
1
And the volcanoes in the Corlian Valley have high sulfurous gas emissions.
Genellan: planetfall
2
She stared into the sulfurous light of his eyes for a moment.
The bone palace
3
The way was dank and sour, sometimes cut with a sulfurous gust.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
4
Thorne coughed in the sulfurous air, and walked back into the sunlight.
The Lost World
5
Now go. He stamps a hoof and disappears with a sulfurous blast.
Sympathy for the devil
Ús de sultry en anglès
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It was half-dark; the morning saal lay in a hot sultry twilight.
Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1
2
In summer, they are sultry and suffocating; in winter, cold and dry.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies o...
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The air was very sultry in the house with the green shutters.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
4
A sultry, hot day at the coalface isn't ever an easy ask.
The Irish Times
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It was a warm, sultry evening in the middle of the week.
The Desired Woman
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I'm glad to hear that, she said, her voice soft and sultry.
Strong, sleek and sinful
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Sade's sultry vocals over this mid-tempo track set the mood just right.
Ebony
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Thirty minutes later he had slipped out into San Juan's sultry blackness.
The Guardian
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The courtyard is rather too sultry to-day, in spite of the shade.
South Wind
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Through the sultry and hazy atmosphere no rain fell in cooling showers.
Brought Home
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Apprehension fell over him like an icy rain in the sultry air.
Bella Donna: A Novel
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He disregarded the sultry heat and the cold, despised thirst and hunger.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
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The morning breeze died away, and the noon was close and sultry.
New National Fourth Reader
14
In summer he is not languid, for the air is never sultry.
California and the Californians
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Very dull morning and sultry; every appearance of rain, sky perfectly overcast.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
16
It was hot and sultry, which is rare in an English June.
Night and Morning, Volume 1
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