steaminess
Example Sentences
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If it is not now summer, it is close to it, but the sogginess, the steaminess, the sweaty stickiness seemed nowhere to be found.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022
The steaminess of a summer day exploded into storminess Tuesday evening, offering the spectacle of thunder, lightning and wind-whipped rain, along with the discomforts of power outages at tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
“Indebted” creator Dan Levy, a comedian and producer for “The Goldbergs,” said that he originally modeled Debbie and Stew after his own parents, but that the steaminess was all Drescher.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
The steaminess can’t get out, so there’s no danger of the fish drying out.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
She was too wretchedly in earnest to be tragic, or gloriously insulted, or anything save dumpy and defenseless and flushed to the red steaminess of a boiled beet.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
