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This victory, secured in the sweltering Scottish heat, means Brownlee has titles at the Commonwealth Games, the Olympics, the Europeans and the world championships – a full house of successes that surpasses all expectations he ever had when starting out in the sport.
Life was usually hurrying me to somewhere else, as it is now, but this time being cooped up in a sweltering car on such a radiant late spring day is just too much.
From the stage the actors could see the misery etched on their faces, condemned to sit in a sweltering theatre and watch a play about heterosexual and homosexual love in New York when all their mates were down the pub screaming advice at Paul Gascoigne.
Made in Dagenham Shifty The Firm Vera Drake All Or Nothing Made in Dagenham Doctor Who Made in Dagenham The Sweet Smell of Success Hearing that Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino's editor, had died last week after hiking in a canyon on a sweltering day in LA, was a bitter irony.
Thirty-two yeafterfter Yannick Noah's triumph, the Swiss held his nerve to deny Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a gruelling duel fought out in sweltering conditions and his 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 victory puts him into the French Open final for the first time.
In Yenagoa in Bayelsa state on Friday, Judith Jacobs had been standing under the sweltering sun for more than five hours.
Faithful to the leprechaun omerta, he gave a non-verbal response: a shake of the head to indicate he wasn't sweltering , and a thumbs-up presumably to show he was happy to see the crowds come out in the sun.
Further along, in a small concrete room, a group of middle-aged militiamen with salt and pepper beards were huddled half-naked in the sweltering heat trying to get some sleep.
Receiving a cheer for taking his jacket off in sweltering heat and reprising John F Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" line, Obama called on German people to remember what they shared with America.
I wish I could help them," the teenager said, her voice almost drowned out by the surrounding chants of "bring back our girls, now and alive!" About 50 protesters decked in red shirts tried on Tuesday to march to the presidential villa under an ominous, sweltering sky, but were repeatedly diverted by phalanxes of riot police, who formed a ring around them as they approached the president's home.
Fictional Prince Salinas broods magnificently amid the sweltering heat of Sicily; Angelo does the same a little further north, on the shores of the Cilento peninsula, in the 'Magna Grecia', at the southern tip of the Bay of Salerno.
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The primary grammatical function of "sweltering" is as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe something characterized by oppressive heat. As affirmed by Ludwig AI, it effectively conveys the discomfort associated with high temperature and humidity.
Expression frequency: Very common
