swelter in the PONS Dictionary

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English
Sweltering temperatures are just around the corner, and your best defense is a central air-conditioning system.
www.popularmechanics.com
There is a shortage of water and electricity; in summer it swelters and in winter it stinks of smoke from fires.
www.independent.co.uk
She could feel the scratch of her clothes and the heat of the house, sufferingly sweltering as the day's sun heated everything.
gawker.com
Seeing all these (mostly) women, who generally wear heavy make-up because they're mostly in night scenes, out sweltering in the warmth was great.
www.smh.com.au
Flies circle dirty pots and pans, and the temperature on board is sweltering.
qz.com
Earlier, residents found difficult to search for polling booths and avoid the long queue of voters in the summer swelter.
www.dnaindia.com
I know it's sweltering at times but that doesn't mean we can't look hawt in the heat.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
Drafty heritage buildings that swelter in summer do not fit the bill.
www.theglobeandmail.com
One hundred or more prisoners were stuffed into each of the trains' boxcars, which were unventilated and sweltering in the tropical heat.
en.wikipedia.org
Unfortunately commemorative services are rarely designed for the short, restless attention spans of schoolboys, especially those obliged to sit still in sweltering tropical heat.
www.abc.net.au

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