heat wave
Example Sentences
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India is already enduring a brutal heat wave, and the forecast points to below-average rainfall in the coming monsoon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Plus: Ferrari’s EV haters, a “mind-bogglingly crazy” heat wave and a fight over coal pollution in Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
People have been urged to take precautions near water after at least eight people, mostly children, drowned over the bank holiday weekend while trying to stay cool during the heat wave.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Scientists don’t know too much about the cumulative effects of a prolonged warm oceanic heat wave.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
And yet even as he embraced that bleak understanding, on this, the worst day of the winter, he recalled something he’d seen on the worst day of the worst heat wave of the summer.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
