It was sweltering by anyone's standards.
It may be sweltering during summertime, but extremely cold in wintertime.
One hundred or more prisoners were stuffed into each of the trains' boxcars, which were unventilated and sweltering in the tropical heat.
Everywhere he went tourists and pedestrians sweltered and sweated in the sultry, humid air.
Twenty-four hours later, when the next warm spell of weather started they were operating at full blast so that everybody sweltered while they were subsiding again.
He goes on to describe the filthy smell of sweltering humanity which was quite overpowering even with the majority of the men sleeping on deck.
We just sat and sweltered in the sun, and there was nothing to do.
Is not it desperately urgent, in view of the sweltering summer and the likely outbreak of hepatitis, cholera and typhoid?
