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Definition of sultry in English: sultryadjectivesultriest, sultrier ˈsʌltriˈsəltri 1(of the air or weather) hot and humid. the sultry late summer weather had brought swarms of insects the air was warm, slightly humid but not sultry Example sentencesExamples - From the sultry weather of Mumbai, the players had travelled to the Capital where dry heat awaited them.
- Samoa's climate is sultry, alternately sunny and rainy, but always hot and humid.
- So what's the next best option to escape from the sultry weather?
- It was quite a change from the cold winters of Canada to the hot, sultry weather of Zanzibar.
- One fears for other encounters between the police and individuals in crisis in the coming hot and sultry summer weather.
- Excellent music for packing on a hot, humid, sultry, summer's night.
- To escape from the scorching, sultry summers of Delhi he would take his trainees to the sand dunes of the Yamuna at Okhla, South Delhi.
- As his plane moved through the sultry air at eleven thousand feet he reviewed his progress.
- Never have I seen someone run so fast on a sultry summer afternoon.
- The catch was a good one but not as good as three other stunning efforts which ensured that Yorkshire had a constant struggle on their hands in the sultry weather.
- After almost a month of sultry weather most places of Bangladesh were showered with moderate rainfalls in the last couple of days.
- It was summer, the air sultry and heavy with the approaching deluge.
- Yet this is where Guns N'Roses veterans Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum find themselves on a sultry summer Saturday in June.
- It looks wonderful, with its sultry air, more vivid than I can remember ever seeing in a film.
- Not a leaf, not a blade of grass, stirred in the sultry air.
- Not used to such humid and sultry conditions, the bears are said to tackle the heat by lying still for hours together.
- If your summers get really sultry, your peppers will appreciate a heavy mulch after the spring season.
- It was a welcome relief from the sultry weather conditions for people as Chandigarh and the adjoining areas had a low to moderate rainfall today.
- The long period of hot, sultry, humid, rainless weather has finally broken this morning, with a long, rumbling storm.
- Our current approach is to prevent the disease during the sultry, humid summer.
Synonyms humid, close, airless, stuffy, stifling, suffocating, oppressive, muggy, sticky, sweltering, tropical, torrid, steamy, heavy hot, warm, boiling, roasting 2(especially of a woman or her behaviour) displaying or suggesting a strongly sexual nature. Example sentencesExamples - Elinor laughed, a sultry entangling siren's laugh.
- She was soon featuring in US magazines wearing little more than a sultry smile.
- Most of the other paintings and pastels on view feature sultry young female models variously posed in fashionable garb.
- Ms April is best described as a woman with sultry looks, with pale lovely skin, full lips and chocolate brown eyes that would make you melt.
- She reinvented herself from cute girl-next-door to sultry diva.
- Has he ever witnessed any sultry housewives or teenage seductresses losing pieces of their bikinis in the water?
- Remember those sultry, sexy pictures of the young James Dean?
- This sultry goddess of a tow-truck driver has been rescuing autos in distress for almost five years.
- She was beautiful: a sultry brunette with a seductive voice and she oozed femininity.
- His sultry looks and sinuous movements were his passport to Hollywood, where his first leading roles in 1921 catapulted him to fame.
- She shot to fame as a sultry seductress in Desperate Housewives.
- It's impossible to imagine her as the girl next door or a sultry temptress, so she often ends up playing the sexless totty, rather than the heroine.
- On the DVD cover is a picture of a rather sultry woman in a sensual pose.
- A flicker of a sultry woman, moist with the warmth of water from the ocean, comes to mind.
- Her sultry voice caused something inside of him to burn.
- She had been described as Ireland's sultry, sexy jazz diva and her reputation has seen her travel all over the world.
- And just when the show seemed to be over, the lights went up on a 1930s nightclub, complete with sultry singers, tables and waiters.
- The sultry songstress took time out to share her thoughts about what makes her so different.
- Get past the strawberry blond tresses and her willowy, sultry looks, and Sutton's intelligence is manifest in all she does.
- The sultry actress will be the face of the rap star's brand new fashion line.
Synonyms passionate, attractive, sensual, sexy, voluptuous, luscious, erotic, seductive, provocative, alluring, tempting
Derivatives adverb ˈsʌltrɪliˈsəltrəli Blue For The Most is a beguiling blend of trip-hop, pop and folk, swinging sultrily, with the sort of confidence that sets this debut apart. Example sentencesExamples - Phrases like ‘You-ure my wo-o-o-ma-a-an’ slink sultrily through the darkness.
- I was quite surprised to see a scantily clad mannequin reclining sultrily under the covers.
- Victoria sultrily grinned at him and shrugged as if it were nothing, then strutted up to him in a way that made Alex's breath catch in his throat.
- And wearing a knowing smile, Jennie walked sultrily over to him, waving a fan of peacock feathers.
noun ˈsʌltrɪnəsˈsəltrinəs Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, who died in 1992, created the ‘nuevo tango’, a music that mixes the sultriness of tango forms with the sophistication of classical techniques. Example sentencesExamples - Neither the heat nor the sultriness dampened the spirits of the rallyists.
- As a principal with Ballet Arizona, she arches her sinuous back and undulates her arms with poetic delicacy in Bournonville's La Sylphide, and struts with sexy sultriness in Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
- There's an impossible, unreasonable glamour to the stars of the past; the hauteur of Dietrich, the sultriness of Bacall, the mystique of Garbo.
- Old Chloe was trying to be a sex kitten or something, but as The Hack observed she had ‘all the sultriness of a lukewarm washcloth.’
Origin Late 16th century: from obsolete sulter 'swelter'. Definition of sultry in US English: sultryadjectiveˈsəltriˈsəltrē 1(of the air or weather) hot and humid. the sultry late summer weather had brought swarms of insects the air was warm, slightly humid but not sultry Example sentencesExamples - From the sultry weather of Mumbai, the players had travelled to the Capital where dry heat awaited them.
- It was quite a change from the cold winters of Canada to the hot, sultry weather of Zanzibar.
- It was summer, the air sultry and heavy with the approaching deluge.
- Excellent music for packing on a hot, humid, sultry, summer's night.
- It looks wonderful, with its sultry air, more vivid than I can remember ever seeing in a film.
- So what's the next best option to escape from the sultry weather?
- After almost a month of sultry weather most places of Bangladesh were showered with moderate rainfalls in the last couple of days.
- Not used to such humid and sultry conditions, the bears are said to tackle the heat by lying still for hours together.
- The long period of hot, sultry, humid, rainless weather has finally broken this morning, with a long, rumbling storm.
- Yet this is where Guns N'Roses veterans Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum find themselves on a sultry summer Saturday in June.
- The catch was a good one but not as good as three other stunning efforts which ensured that Yorkshire had a constant struggle on their hands in the sultry weather.
- Never have I seen someone run so fast on a sultry summer afternoon.
- Samoa's climate is sultry, alternately sunny and rainy, but always hot and humid.
- Not a leaf, not a blade of grass, stirred in the sultry air.
- One fears for other encounters between the police and individuals in crisis in the coming hot and sultry summer weather.
- If your summers get really sultry, your peppers will appreciate a heavy mulch after the spring season.
- As his plane moved through the sultry air at eleven thousand feet he reviewed his progress.
- To escape from the scorching, sultry summers of Delhi he would take his trainees to the sand dunes of the Yamuna at Okhla, South Delhi.
- It was a welcome relief from the sultry weather conditions for people as Chandigarh and the adjoining areas had a low to moderate rainfall today.
- Our current approach is to prevent the disease during the sultry, humid summer.
Synonyms humid, close, airless, stuffy, stifling, suffocating, oppressive, muggy, sticky, sweltering, tropical, torrid, steamy, heavy 2(of a person, especially a woman) attractive in a way that suggests a passionate nature. Example sentencesExamples - She reinvented herself from cute girl-next-door to sultry diva.
- On the DVD cover is a picture of a rather sultry woman in a sensual pose.
- She had been described as Ireland's sultry, sexy jazz diva and her reputation has seen her travel all over the world.
- And just when the show seemed to be over, the lights went up on a 1930s nightclub, complete with sultry singers, tables and waiters.
- The sultry actress will be the face of the rap star's brand new fashion line.
- Most of the other paintings and pastels on view feature sultry young female models variously posed in fashionable garb.
- A flicker of a sultry woman, moist with the warmth of water from the ocean, comes to mind.
- Elinor laughed, a sultry entangling siren's laugh.
- His sultry looks and sinuous movements were his passport to Hollywood, where his first leading roles in 1921 catapulted him to fame.
- Get past the strawberry blond tresses and her willowy, sultry looks, and Sutton's intelligence is manifest in all she does.
- She was soon featuring in US magazines wearing little more than a sultry smile.
- She shot to fame as a sultry seductress in Desperate Housewives.
- Ms April is best described as a woman with sultry looks, with pale lovely skin, full lips and chocolate brown eyes that would make you melt.
- Has he ever witnessed any sultry housewives or teenage seductresses losing pieces of their bikinis in the water?
- It's impossible to imagine her as the girl next door or a sultry temptress, so she often ends up playing the sexless totty, rather than the heroine.
- This sultry goddess of a tow-truck driver has been rescuing autos in distress for almost five years.
- She was beautiful: a sultry brunette with a seductive voice and she oozed femininity.
- The sultry songstress took time out to share her thoughts about what makes her so different.
- Remember those sultry, sexy pictures of the young James Dean?
- Her sultry voice caused something inside of him to burn.
Synonyms passionate, attractive, sensual, sexy, voluptuous, luscious, erotic, seductive, provocative, alluring, tempting
Origin Late 16th century: from obsolete sulter ‘swelter’. |