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单词 oven-like
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Definition of oven-like in English:

oven-like

adjective
  • Extremely hot.

    the oven-like temperatures inside the club
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When we arrived, the woman who checked us in struggled to get the key for our room to work, while we waited in the oven-like hallway.
    • We were holed up in an ovenlike room for three and a half hours.
    • In recent days, Shanghai has reached oven-like temperatures due to the sun.
    • The coastal heat created oven-like conditions in the tombs and dried the contents out, thus preserving them.
    • Every summer we cook slowly in our oven-like office.
    • He endured oven-like heat, thirst and exhaustion to reach Aksum, the ancient kingdom where the Ark of the Covenant is said to be housed.
    • In the oven-like heat of the early afternoon, after several stops at roadside coffee-houses, they passed the stone pillars which indicated the beginning of the sacred territory.
    • Some nights as I sweated and coughed under the mosquito netting in my oven-like room I couldn't remember why I had thought that coming to Uganda was such a good idea.
    • And these buildings, too, were comfortable on even the most ovenlike of days.
    • This "urban heat island effect" occurs because pavements and ovenlike black-tar roofs absorb and reflect back heat.
    • It was a humid oven-like late August day across most of the midwest.
    • It was a jagged wasteland of ovenlike heat, frantic mosquitoes, and unfordable, unsanitary rivers.
    Synonyms
    very warm, balmy, summery, tropical, boiling, boiling hot, blazing hot, baking, scorching, roasting, searing, flaming, parching, blistering
 
 

Definition of oven-like in US English:

oven-like

adjectiveˈəvənˌlīk
  • Extremely hot.

    we were holed up in an oven-like room for three and a half hours
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When we arrived, the woman who checked us in struggled to get the key for our room to work, while we waited in the oven-like hallway.
    • It was a jagged wasteland of ovenlike heat, frantic mosquitoes, and unfordable, unsanitary rivers.
    • The coastal heat created oven-like conditions in the tombs and dried the contents out, thus preserving them.
    • And these buildings, too, were comfortable on even the most ovenlike of days.
    • He endured oven-like heat, thirst and exhaustion to reach Aksum, the ancient kingdom where the Ark of the Covenant is said to be housed.
    • Every summer we cook slowly in our oven-like office.
    • This "urban heat island effect" occurs because pavements and ovenlike black-tar roofs absorb and reflect back heat.
    • It was a humid oven-like late August day across most of the midwest.
    • In recent days, Shanghai has reached oven-like temperatures due to the sun.
    • Some nights as I sweated and coughed under the mosquito netting in my oven-like room I couldn't remember why I had thought that coming to Uganda was such a good idea.
    • In the oven-like heat of the early afternoon, after several stops at roadside coffee-houses, they passed the stone pillars which indicated the beginning of the sacred territory.
    • We were holed up in an ovenlike room for three and a half hours.
    Synonyms
    very warm, balmy, summery, tropical, boiling, boiling hot, blazing hot, baking, scorching, roasting, searing, flaming, parching, blistering
 
 
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