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  • adverb In a stewing manner.

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Examples

  • The day had grown so stewingly hot that when a bead of sweat trickled down my arm it seemed like liquid fire.

    Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

  • By the time we were turning the corner onto our street, the day was stewingly hot.

    Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

  • From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.

    Archive 2006-10-01 GreenFertility 2006

  • From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.

    The Artificial Womb GreenFertility 2006

  • From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • Beat Oat-meal small; put a little of it to milk, and let it boil stewingly, till you see that the milk begins to thicken with it.

    The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

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