sultry

The sultry “Hard Times” combines a slow cha-cha-cha rhythm with strings, horns, electric keyboards and a reverb-heavy bass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

Even masala chai would lose its signature, sultry kick.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

Singer Taylor Momsen had a big presence on the massive stage, looking like the Runways’ Cherie Currie circa ’70s, her voice sultry pitch perfect, her commanding voice as genuine as her positively magnetic stage presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2025

The air was not so stale and sultry in the room as it was downstairs.

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—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

See, rather, under sultrier skies What vegetable Londons rise, And teem, and suffer without sound.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

One evening it seemed hotter and sultrier than ever.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables

The hours slipped by; the air grew stiller and sultrier.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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 one of the sultriest days of August, but the air was vividly fresh, and the sun, with all the strength of the climate of Italy, was unoppressive.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

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

Susan stepped into the tightly-closed, partially darkened parlor which never in the sultriest weather seemed wholly to lose the chill of its unwarmed winter days.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith

It is the hour of noon; and the sun, shining down from the zenith, permeates the atmosphere with his sultriest rays.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid