sultry

In a sultry basement bar on a Wednesday night in downtown Manhattan, some serious trash talking was going on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Porter originally wrote it as a sultry bolero, but Sinatra and Riddle supercharge it into one of the singer’s most celebrated uptempo showcases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

So does Althouse, who has a deep, sultry radio-announcer voice and often pauses momentarily to ruminate deeply before answering questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

Currently on tour in Australia, he's been loosening up, gently leaning into the softer image he's spent recent years trying to toughen, even performing an intimate karaoke bar set of early sultry hits.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025

Outside the air was sultry and there was a foul odor in the street.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Van Morrison’s Moondance, despite being constantly wrung out by classic-rock radio and adult-contemporary stations alike, still evokes the possibility offered by summertime’s shorter, sultrier nights.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015

Then they turned back and the clouds were sultrier, low on the horizon, and the velvety darkness fell more thickly, like warm snow, and the ravelled tjemaras were fuller and blacker than before.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

See, rather, under sultrier skies What vegetable Londons rise, And teem, and suffer without sound: Or in your tranquil garden ground, Contented, in the falling gloom, Saunter and see the roses bloom.

From Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

A yet sultrier warmth was bestowed by a goodly quantity of peat, which was crumbling to white ashes among the burning brands, and incensed the kitchen with its not ungrateful fragrance.

From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Instead of the night becoming cooler it had grown sultrier, and in places the walk was fairly packed with human beings.

From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

The three hottest years in the past century have come in the past decade, and 1995 was the sultriest on record.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the sultriest day of the whole season—surely they could not think of shutting up the second-floor back windows to-night!

From A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

That Canyon was the sultriest place I have ever struck, and my experience includes some of the hottest sections this side of the equator.

From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan

Consequently I gasped out something about its being the sultriest 47th of August in eighteen years, and plumped back into a chair opposite him.

From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs

The day had been one of the sultriest of August.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various