Swelter

The record high "swelter" lasted from July 21-26, making the string of unabated heat the longest high temperatures ever recorded in Wayne County, and residents endured the heat without benefit of air conditioning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I only managed 616 words on "January 28, 1926," before the swelter of the office got to me. ❋ Mevennen (2009)

Padre Pio's sainthood ceremony, led by John Paul in June 2002, saw about 200,000 faithful swelter the square in one of the larger turnouts in his 26-year-long papacy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Anyway, I'd swelter now, and tomorrow just load the car and leave fresh in the morning, right? ❋ P_n_elrod (2010)

Dallas hit 100 degrees for an unprecedented 70th day as Texas continued to swelter under record summer heat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As the temperature climbed to 97 degrees Thursday, much of New York went about its day in near ignorance of the late-spring swelter. ❋ Richard Autry (2011)

At the rehearsal dinner, au contraire, I will have nothing between me and the elements except my kurta, and will have to hope for swelter. ❋ Jean (2009)

This year the match was several weeks earlier than usual to avoid last year's swelter, Mr. Figueras explained. ❋ Jen Wieczner (2011)

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

Even though he was soon due in Nashville to begin an intense, two-week production in 98-degree swelter, the Ditmas Park-based writer-director made it a priority to attend the opening-night party for the BAMcinemaFest, the annual survey of the best in mostly new American independent film. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

That was 1980, a year of such sizzle and swelter that it has become memorable to those who experienced it, and created widespread doubt that its misery could ever be matched. ❋ Martin Weil (2010)

I'm a bit ill from the most recent increase in my Prazosin dosage, bad timing with this swelter. ❋ Faustfatale (2010)

Arpaio knows that the genteel class is willing to do just about anything to avoid having to serve time in the tents, where inmates are packed in like rats to swelter in the summer and get chilled to the bone in the winter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Long after my parents were asleep, I'd lie in the tropical swelter of my room, watching the geckoes in each corner who kept mosquitoes at bay, flipping between lines of iambic pentameter to footnotes and glossary, trying to suck out all the meaning he packed into each phrase. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm not arguing that one should swelter in woolen knee socks during July and August. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)