Sentence examples for vicious heat from inspiring English sources

The city was tranquilized under a vicious heat wave.

The tropical storm was credited with at least one beneficial effect: it ended a vicious heat wave that had lasted for over a week and killed at least ninety people.

The black soldiers faced vicious cold, heat, mosquitoes and mud, like everyone else.

But Dr. Redlener wrote that the situation is worsening for the boy as the standoff has become more vicious and heated.

Engineers would face fierce cold, fierce heat, vicious insects, and vast stretches of permafrost and boggy terrain called muskeg that swallowed bulldozers whole.

The effect of hyperthermia on skeletal muscle is to reduce the calcium requirement for excitation-contraction coupling and thus establish a vicious cycle of heat production secondary to muscle contraction.

There is nothing cuddly about nature in that neck of the non-woods, where vicious cold and exhausting heat, ceaseless wind, and, alternating underfoot, snow, ice, sucking mud, and black dust try the soul.

WASHINGTON — From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation's infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms.