With an exception, of course, for Anne Bancroft's sultry Mrs. Robinson.
On a sultry afternoon you may find a long line of people at the drinking fountain, waiting to slake their thirst.
It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain; and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the crossroads.
I met her in a sultry summer afternoon.
What may be less obvious is that species already adapted to sultry conditions are at dire risk from global warming.
It was night time when we came to the grove that is outside the walls, and the air was sultry, for the Moon was travelling in Scorpion.
Old men wear only boxer shorts in the sultry streets.
They were an earnest and eager bunch, and their attire was more business-casual than sultry Spanish Harlem.
On a sultry evening in August, Zhang Yuwei, who works in sales in Shanghai, donned a chiffon shirt and hotpants to attend one of the first performances of the show in Mandarin.
There is a sultry Bond girl, too, playing the mermaid queen.
sensual excesses; a sultry look; a sultry dance.
Summer, that is not hot and sultry, as in the Central Russia, but of fresh, chilly Kamchatkan one, with the scent of freshness, sea and wild flowers.
It was in May. The sultry noon seemed endlessly long. The dry earth gaped with thirst in the heat.
All eyes will turn to sultry Rio DE Janeiro when it hosts the 2016 Olympic Games, but right now Brazil's white-hot destination may be the northeastern state of Bahia.
Summer is sultry. That's the reason why I don't like it.
The night was as sultry as the day.
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