Sentence examples for oppressive weather from inspiring English sources

The fall favorite is available starting today, despite the oppressive weather.

His small force, burdened by the oppressive weather and located 800 miles (1,300 km) from their base at Kabul, was surrounded by powerful foes.

But this week, when a spell of oppressive weather gave way to cloudless cobalt skies, it could have been Sept. 11 all over again.

Sixty percent of American embassies and consulates are designated hardship posts for reasons including security threats, poor hospitals and schools, and oppressive weather.

Sixty percent of American embassies and consulates are designated hardship posts for reasons ranging from security threats to poor hospitals to oppressive weather, and those missions report a vacancy rate 50percentt higher than in richer nations.

Just as a thundercloud is fueled by moisture and heat, Sunday's attacks on women in Central Park were fueled by an alchemy of alcohol, marijuana, oppressive weather, testosterone and lapses in police strategy, tactics and communication.

The opener, "Grey in L.A.," is a jaunty ode in which Wainwright tweaks the city for its oppressive good weather, name-drops the eco-warrior Laurie David and the über-producer Brad Grey, and adds just enough resignation and regret to counter his (considerable) cleverness.

The weather was also a lot more comfortable than the oppressive conditions that had settled over the course during the tournament.

In the opening shot two elderly peasants (Ramón Del Rio and Georgina Genes) materialize from a thick green forest, suspend a length of fabric between trees and settle down to contemplate the weather (oppressive, thundering), the yelping of a nearby dog and the fate of its absent master, their son, a soldier off at war.

Here the gloomy weather and oppressive atmosphere propel Maugham to more exotic climes — Seville, say, or sultry Southeast Asia at the height of French colonial rule.

In bad weather the oppressive heat and noxious fumes in the unventilated and unsanitary holds caused fevers and dysentery, with a high mortality rate.