suffocating heat

Despite the suffocating heat that washed over him, he turned cold.

The suffocating heat hit once more and he knew that soon the whole area would be in flames.

Already she could feel the suffocating heat crowding in around her.

The first thing they noticed was the suffocating heat.

Defeated by the suffocating heat, he wouldn't be able to catch up with her.

A blue smoke hazed the air, and there was a sense of suffocating heat.

They must be desperately hungry, the captain decided, or driven mad by the suffocating heat.

He shut off the engine, and we waited in silence and suffocating heat.

Inside the caisson stood suffocating heat, like a Swedish sauna.

It was a scorcher, the most brutal and suffocating heat wave in twenty years, some said.

The priest was perspiring, and the feeling of suffocating heat made him take off his bathrobe.

Against the suffocating heat, a few men have de-wigged, and fan their flushed red faces.

In the suffocating heat, many left their face masks dangling from their necks.

By the time he began his speech about half an hour later in this desert oasis, the suffocating heat was pushing past 113 degrees.

The waiting was as unbearable as the suffocating heat.

The men's Olympic marathon will be run in the suffocating heat and humidity of early August.

The big iron brazier was glowing red, filling the room with a sullen suffocating heat.

The blaze in the hearth cast waves of suffocating heat into the stately drawing room.

He finally trapped him one evening when the day's suffocating heat broke in a cataclysmic rainstorm.

Last Island was also known for an almost continuous breeze, which would have been welcomed by those escaping the suffocating heat of the mainland.

Researchers and hospital administrators endured suffocating heat so that bedridden patients could have air-conditioning.

Time pressed in with suffocating heat.

When he could endure the suffocating heat no longer, Dalton ducked out of the lodge and plunged into the stream.

In that suffocating heat the two glasses of champagne they had drunk had increased their intoxication.

The man found himself sometimes drowsing in the suffocating heat to the steady, familiar rhythms and the voices which gave them tongue.