swelter
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Warm spring evenings that soon will lip into summer swelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
That's where they've remained since Feb. 20, receiving little water and stale food as they swelter in the Panamanian heat.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025
They swelter inside layers of insulated clothing designed to keep the heat of flames from penetrating.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023
Southern Europe will continue to swelter next week as an intense heatwave shows no sign of abating.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2023
Beyond the ring of their firelight, there was nothing except animal sounds and insects, the black wildness of the jungles and swamps, the swelter of the interior.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Vocabulary lists containing swelter
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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