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Example sentences for "the heat"

  • In that instance, however, the heat of the oven was not so great as that which M.

  • But the reader has two keener surprises in store for him before I close the long history of the heat-resisters.

  • Only the fact that a hummock of heathery sand intercepted the lower part of the Heat-Ray saved them.

  • The Heat-Ray had shaved the chimney tops and passed.

  • No, sir," and the artilleryman began a vivid account of the Heat-Ray.

  • And there's a smell of wild grape-vine growing in damp hollows which you drop into, after long rides in the heat, which is beyond compare for sweetness.

  • The curves of the Downs shook a little in the heat, and so did Mr Dudeney's distant head.

  • The heat of these present times ripens childhood to age more quickly than I can follow.

  • All this must appear to a sober mind, unbitten by the rage which grows out of the heat of these new discoverers, to be nothing less than astronomy run mad.

  • In that way the inhabitants of the Georgium Sidus are already sufficiently provided for; they appear to have as little benefit of the light as of the heat of the sun.

  • They are all formed of volcanic rocks; a few fragments of granite curiously glazed and altered by the heat, can hardly be considered as an exception.

  • A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun.

  • The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

  • If the weight be permitted to fall, the heat generated by its collision with the earth would exactly make up for that lacking in the muscle during the lifting of the weight.

  • Supposing the muscle to contract without raising the weight, oxidation would also occur, but the whole of the heat produced by this oxidation would be liberated in the muscle itself.

  • Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano.

  • You cannot separate the moral and emotional from the intellectual; and thus it is that the discussion of a point of science may rise to the heat of a battle-field.

  • Not so when it performs external work; to do that work a certain definite portion of the heat of oxidation must be expended.

  • Such unwholesome food, assisted by the heat of the climate and season, soon produced an epidemical disease, which swept away five hundred soldiers.

  • Yet in the heat of dispute, the Portuguese were sometimes branded with the name of uncircumcised, (La Croze, p.

  • But this act of justice, or revenge, was inflicted on a foreign enemy in the heat of victory, and at the command of a single man.

  • By the hour in the night I look at my lovely room, and I just fight my eyes to keep them from closing for fear they'll open in that stifling garret to the heat of day and work I have not strength to do.

  • He set the glass, rapidly frosting in the heat, and the fruit before the Girl.

  • Because of the walk in the heat, this time the programme is a little different.

  • Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold, and in summer because of the heat.

  • He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

  • My hostess put the lamp on a stand in the corner, and turned it low because of the heat.

  • It was very hard work, especially for men with loads; and it would have been impossible on account of the heat were it not for the numerous streams.

  • By this time we were fairly tired from long walking in the heat, and so were content to sit down under our tent-fly before our little table, and let Mahomet bring us sparklets and lime juice.

  • In all directions we could make out small gameherds resting motionless in the heat of the day, the mirage throwing them into fantastic shapes.

  • I'm nearly dying of the heat, myself, so you have a fellow-sufferer, if that pleases you.

  • When the sun's rays at noon poured straight downward the shadows assumed a bluish tint; scorched grass slept in the heat, while an icy shiver passed beneath the foliage.

  • From the neighboring forests and meadows, swooning in the heat, came a prolonged and distant voice made up of all the scattered breaths.

  • He broke off and in the heat of explanation shouted to Cossard: "Geraldine, give the kiss!

  • A strip of flannel was wound round her long thin neck, and, in spite of the heat, she wore a shabby yellow fur tippet on her shoulders.

  • It was a huge fly which had been sleeping in a corner of my room and had been roused by the heat of the stove.

  • She began to untie the packet and turned to the light (all the windows were closed in spite of the heat).

  • The heat was as intolerable as before, but he inhaled the dusty, fetid, infected town air with greediness.

  • It was in truth a day of terror because of the heat.

  • Old Daniel Wise is overcome by the heat," answered Dr.

  • A sudden storm, the heat-breaker, had come up and the dreadful day was vanquished.

  • As Daniel went on the heat seemed to become palpable--something which could actually be seen.

  • The season had been unusually hot, and Mrs. Diantha had not spared herself from her duty on account of the heat.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the heat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the breadth; the deep; the fountain; the language; the open; the other; the plains; the seventh; the vale; theatre party; then applied; then being; then cover; then hang; then inquired; then plane; then stopped; then transferred; thence west; theological seminary; there ain; there are; therefore the; these cases; these occasions; these was