How to Use swelter in a Sentence

swelter

1 of 2 verb
  • We were sweltering in the summer heat.
  • Three people were found dead in sweltering rail cars in just the last few days.
    — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The power was out and would remain so for six sweltering days.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And Paris isn’t the only place sweltering in this week’s heat.
    — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 24 July 2019
  • The sweltering heat dries out soil, wilts leaves and slows plants’ food production.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • From sixth grade on, my class did week-long projects that took us to sweltering rice fields several hours north.
    — Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Earth just sweltered through its hottest June-August on record.
    — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The area was nearly empty, but still sweltering.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 11 June 2026
  • Those cool houses in the Sunset, built to catch the ocean breeze, start to swelter when the breeze dies away.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2019
  • The days are still sweltering, but dusk comes early and sharp, and the air turns suddenly cold.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The heat wave, caused by a dome of hot air hovering over the state, caused most of it to swelter Thursday.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The fire bird and the sweltering city not only have heat in common but the the concept of rebirth as well.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Airy knits will keep you cool on sweltering hot days, and bright minis will photograph well in all your summer pics.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 17 July 2023
  • Britain, Italy and Spain are sweltering as the travel season picks up.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Canine chill wear Dogs don’t sweat, so their bodies can’t release all that heat on sweltering days.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Heat domes are to blame for the nearly week-long stretch of sweltering heat in Greater Cincinnati.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
  • This toasty crust works especially great in those sweltering summer months when nobody wants to run an oven for an hour.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That version was held in the parking lot of Caesars Palace and in sweltering heat.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And sensors aren’t always able to tell whether that heat’s coming from your smartwatch or a sweltering summer day.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Tourist hot spots are already having to make adjustments because of the sweltering heat.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • Lessons get canceled, children sit in sweltering rooms trying to focus and learn, and the adults point fingers.
    — Kevin Vick, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • June, July, sweltering in that city of love, in another building made of brick.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • While some parts of the country are still easing out of the sweltering temperatures of summer, chilly fall days will be here in a flash.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the 2003 heat wave, two-thirds of the Parisian dead had lived in tiny, sweltering top-floor apartments.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • The storms followed another sweltering day in which highs reached the upper 90s.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • April is cherry-blossom season; August is sweltering, but at least most of the politicians are out of town.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • The rectory air was humid; sun poured through windows on the southern side, so that certain rooms sweltered and others felt as cold as a cave.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In Des Moines, school bus drivers received medical aid at the end of sweltering shifts.
    — Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The country has also been sweltering through a severe heat wave that has killed at least 249 people over the past four months.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The first day at the Pitti is damn hot—a sweltering 35 degrees Celsius.
    — Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023

swelter

2 of 2 noun
  • The fire comes as parts of the West Coast swelter under a heat wave.
    — Jack Moore, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2025
  • On the couch, in the summer swelter, their sticky bodies are inches apart, even as their souls drift.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • No more running into the store for something and leaving your kid to swelter.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 July 2017
  • While parts of the country swelter, some regions may see early snowfall this year.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Temperatures neared 90 but stopped short of the realms of true swelter.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Forecasts call for the swelter to be dialed up a notch, perhaps even as high as the three digit mark before the weekend ends.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
  • The study comes as much of the United States swelters through extended triple-digit heat.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2017
  • Experts say a flash drought often begins as a pin-sized swelter in one county, then expands like an amoeba across the landscape.
    — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The tropical conditions added a swelter to the heat wave, which offered little overnight relief.
    — Julie Watson and John Antczak, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Stronger and stronger heat waves forced communities across the country and world into dangerous swelter.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • While the coastal communities get cooled by ocean breezes most days, many East County folks swelter in the summer heat.
    — Jamie Gold, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 July 2017
  • Bus passengers swelter during a heat wave in London on Monday.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 23 June 2026
  • Atlanta won't escape the swelter and is expected to feel as hot as 103 on Tuesday.
    — NBC News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The summer swelter hasn’t arrived yet, which means an outdoor table right now feels less like a punishment and more like a genuine luxury.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Both figures may have showed a resurgent August, offering enough summer simmer to hold a place in the swelter sweepstakes.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Its living room rapidly reached the swelter and volume of a blacksmith’s forge operating as a front for an unlicensed tavern.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The entire surface swelters at 900 degrees Fahrenheit, all day, every day.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Word is that our 2022 initiation into the realm of swelter could come as soon as Saturday.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 May 2022
  • Tuesday showed us an afternoon with the solar dazzle of summer but without the swelter of true summer in Washington.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • The melody feels like steam rising from a blue line on an old map in that kind of swelter only Southern towns near water can muster, the chords moving slowly like a cloud of melancholy.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 15 Aug. 2021
  • High temperatures may cause some battery range loss, but there are ways to conserve battery capacity even during spring and summer swelters.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • San Diego County continued to swelter, melt and burn Saturday with record-breaking heat for the second day.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
  • On her way home through the swelter of Chinatown this past week, Laiying Yan carried her only defense against the heat, a bucket of ice.
    — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
  • Perhaps fittingly, the first workweek of the District’s hottest month of the year ended Friday with the city again feeling the sweat and swelter of a heat wave.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • In the absence of El Nino, the swelter of 2017 was unprecedented.
    — Tom Randall, Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Outside the city, farmworkers and outdoor workers swelter in temperatures that can reach 115 degrees or more in the hottest summer months.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
  • This is a mysterious region far from the sun itself but swelters outer space with temperatures over one million degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
  • Since their lofty perches also influence weather, keeping things cooler amid the South’s summer swelter, the perfect time to visit is late May through the end of summer.
    — Jennifer Kornegay, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2021
  • Only a handful of motor vehicles are allowed on the island; transportation is mainly the domain of donkeys or men pushing wooden carts through the tropical swelter.
    — National Geographic, 10 May 2017
  • In one swoop, a tepid Heat summer could match the swelter of Vegas, with plenty of elements that would have to come into play to make either option a possibility.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2022

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