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

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

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

He’s clearly having fun in his not-Redd Foxx role; she’s good sassy, sultry, but also sensitive company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 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

The air was sultrier than ever, heavy with fragrance and enervating with forebodings of a storm.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus

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 strip of blue sky was curtained over again, and all was dismal as before, though it grew sultrier every moment; and now and then a distant mutter shook the air to westward.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

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

Shout out to future “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson, who joined Journey for “Raised on Radio” and proceeded to lay down the slinkiest, sultriest, funkiest bass line the band had ever known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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

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

The June day was at its sultriest hour.

From Whirligigs by O. Henry