sweltering

• The heat from the stove enveloped me, sweltering, and the spicy fragrance of the gumbo grew abruptly stronger. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
• (Minneapolis to be exact), where extreme climate variations of -40 to freakin 'sweltering are the norm, they've been chosen to be the band to save the world - for with extreme weather comes extreme rocking and extreme extremeness. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
• It was sweltering, about 120 degrees in the bowels of the big ship, dead at sea some 300 miles off the coast of Somalia. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
• Two marked differences I remarked--the heat was never sweltering, as is sometimes the case in England, and the wind never stings, as it too often does in the mother country. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
• The air was sweltering, the sky the color of burnished copper, out of which the sun beat remorselessly in almost perpendicular beams. —  In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

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