How to Use swelter in a Sentence

swelter

1 of 2 verb

• We were sweltering in the summer heat.
• Those cool houses in the Sunset, built to catch the ocean breeze, start to swelter when the breeze dies away.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2019
• The Earth just sweltered through its hottest June-August on record.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• He’s booked the pool 45 times this summer and August has yet to swelter.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• And Paris isn’t the only place sweltering in this week’s heat.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 24 July 2019
• The heat wave, caused by a dome of hot air hovering over the state, caused most of it to swelter Thursday.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2022
• Three people were found dead in sweltering rail cars in just the last few days.
  — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The fire bird and the sweltering city not only have heat in common but the the concept of rebirth as well.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
• Heat domes are to blame for the nearly week-long stretch of sweltering heat in Greater Cincinnati.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• The power was out and would remain so for six sweltering days.
  — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• That version was held in the parking lot of Caesars Palace and in sweltering heat.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• The first day at the Pitti is damn hot—a sweltering 35 degrees Celsius.
  — Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Bay Area and the nation as a whole may have enjoyed a relatively mild July, but the rest of the world sweltered in record heat.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2019
• The sweltering heat dries out soil, wilts leaves and slows plants’ food production.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
• Jamaica in June is sweltering, with only the northeast trade winds and the waters of the Caribbean to take the edge off.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2019
• People in the rural areas of Sonora start working at 4 a.m. to avoid the sweltering heat and pause at noon.
  — Cesar Rodriguez Elda Cantú, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Remember when the Dolphins moved to 4 p.m. home games to help sweltering fans?
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 July 2018
• The country has also been sweltering through a severe heat wave that has killed at least 249 people over the past four months.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• While some parts of the country are still easing out of the sweltering temperatures of summer, chilly fall days will be here in a flash.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• This latest heat wave comes at the tail end of what has been a sweltering summer for huge swaths of the U.S., including across most of the southern half of the country and parts of the Midwest.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• The storms followed another sweltering day in which highs reached the upper 90s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• In Des Moines, school bus drivers received medical aid at the end of sweltering shifts.
  — Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• Canine chill wear Dogs don’t sweat, so their bodies can’t release all that heat on sweltering days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• June, July, sweltering in that city of love, in another building made of brick.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
• April is cherry-blossom season; August is sweltering, but at least most of the politicians are out of town.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• Airy knits will keep you cool on sweltering hot days, and bright minis will photograph well in all your summer pics.
  — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 17 July 2023
• Denver is set to post a year’s worth of weather records in just a few days -- for heat and for cold -- while California will continue to swelter.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• And sensors aren’t always able to tell whether that heat’s coming from your smartwatch or a sweltering summer day.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• The day grew hot and humid as the sun passed over the Washington Monument in the distance, and the Lincoln reflecting pool, where in 1963 sweltering marchers cooled their feet.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• Despite its northern location, Milan's summers can be sweltering, especially in July and August, when the city is also very crowded.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024

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swelter

2 of 2 noun

• People sleep on the roofs to escape the indoor swelter.
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
• The study comes as much of the U.S. swelters through extended triple-digit heat.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• Today (Sunday): A return to the summer swelter is on the way.
  — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 16 July 2017
• Temperatures neared 90 but stopped short of the realms of true swelter.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• Some of the country’s biggest cities can expect to swelter.
  — Farah Stockman, New York Times, 17 July 2019
• The study comes as much of the United States swelters through extended triple-digit heat.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2017
• No more running into the store for something and leaving your kid to swelter.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 July 2017
• In the absence of El Nino, the swelter of 2017 was unprecedented.
  — Tom Randall, Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Forecasts call for the swelter to be dialed up a notch, perhaps even as high as the three digit mark before the weekend ends.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
• Perhaps fittingly, the first workweek of the District’s hottest month of the year ended Friday with the city again feeling the sweat and swelter of a heat wave.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• While parts of the country swelter, some regions may see early snowfall this year.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
• While the coastal communities get cooled by ocean breezes most days, many East County folks swelter in the summer heat.
  — Jamie Gold, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 July 2017
• Atlanta won't escape the swelter and is expected to feel as hot as 103 on Tuesday.
  — NBC News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The swelter is hardly the only challenge to outdoor service.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• On her way home through the swelter of Chinatown this past week, Laiying Yan carried her only defense against the heat, a bucket of ice.
  — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Yet there were upsides: namely, shells that slid off with nary a nick and entirely avoiding the swelter of stovetop boiling.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• Word is that our 2022 initiation into the realm of swelter could come as soon as Saturday.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 May 2022
• Those cities, and much of the Pacific Northwest, are in the third — and likely worst — day of a blistering heat wave that has slammed cities that usually escape the worst of the summer swelter.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Aug. 2017
• Experts say a flash drought often begins as a pin-sized swelter in one county, then expands like an amoeba across the landscape.
  — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2019
• The melody feels like steam rising from a blue line on an old map in that kind of swelter only Southern towns near water can muster, the chords moving slowly like a cloud of melancholy.
  — Holly Gleason, Variety, 15 Aug. 2021
• The tropical conditions added a swelter to the heat wave, which offered little overnight relief.
  — Julie Watson and John Antczak, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
• San Diego County continued to swelter, melt and burn Saturday with record-breaking heat for the second day.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Both figures may have showed a resurgent August, offering enough summer simmer to hold a place in the swelter sweepstakes.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
• No relief from the heat: Without air conditioning in many homes, residents in these US cities swelter.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
• The entire surface swelters at 900 degrees Fahrenheit, all day, every day.
  — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• Stronger and stronger heat waves forced communities across the country and world into dangerous swelter.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2019
• In Australia, a bushfire has been burning out of control for six weeks now in the popular tourist spot of Fraser Island as parts of the country swelter through a record-breaking heatwave.
  — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
• Tuesday showed us an afternoon with the solar dazzle of summer but without the swelter of true summer in Washington.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Outside the city, farmworkers and outdoor workers swelter in temperatures that can reach 115 degrees or more in the hottest summer months.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• Since their lofty perches also influence weather, keeping things cooler amid the South’s summer swelter, the perfect time to visit is late May through the end of summer.
  — Jennifer Kornegay, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024