steamy
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Graham was meeting and greeting voters on a steamy Sunday afternoon at a waterfront venue in suburban Charleston.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Wuthering Heights," Emerald Fennell's steamy adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel, charmed moviegoers in North America over the four-day US holiday weekend, raking in $40 million, industry estimates showed Sunday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Every Saturday, Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung plates as many as 20,000 of its delicate, steamy dumplings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
That championship was played in steamy August, another contributing factor to the layout feeling unfamiliar.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
Then, so suddenly that it seemed to come between one watch and the next, the steamy heat of the tropics descended.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Their blues-based rock ’n’ roll is darker, steamier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But in many rural communities, people stay outside late, cooking, socializing, or doing school work and avoiding hot houses made even steamier by metal roofs, Paaijmans and his colleagues have found.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2022
If you thought it felt a bit steamier the last time you went to Bed, Bath & Beyond, you wouldn’t be alone.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
After lunch — sandwiches eaten while sitting on logs above a lightly steaming hillside green with mosses — several of us try to ski up to the top of an even steamier hillside.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
This room is hotter and steamier than the others because the snakes and turtles need it to be; it smells musky.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
We did not quite go back to spring or forward to fall in Washington on Sunday, but it did seem that we said farewell — however briefly — to the steamiest side of summer.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2021
Wednesday, the last day of June, was 95 — our steamiest of the year so far.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed perhaps their steamiest rendition yet of Shallow, from their film A Star is Born.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2019
The mirror is “more than a match for even the steamiest bathroom,” the website promises, which honestly sounds like a challenge to me, as I pride myself on my steamy bathroom.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2018
Build a development in the steamiest, nastiest jungle, and test recruits for the colony there.
From The Merchants of Venus by A. H. Phelps
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