sweat box
Example Sentences
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"The whole ship was a sweat box," he said, with some passengers in cabins that had no windows resorting to sleeping on the ship's roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Kiss me, take my heart, break it again," he sings atop a convulsive electro pulse, as dancers pull him into a transparent "sweat box" that represents the relationship he can't escape.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Me back to the sweat box at eight per when I'm gettin' fourteen for this?
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
I had an hour of solid comfort to-day, now I'm in the sweat box again.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
He put poor old Alf Reesling through the "sweat box" time and again, and worthless Tom Folly had many an unhappy night, wondering why the marshal was shadowing him so persistently.
From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
