What is "stiflingly"

Usage examples of "stiflingly".

Tarma usually enjoyed warmth, the air in the Great Hall was stiflingly hot even to her.

The room was stiflingly warm, but she wore a pink flannel bedjacket that cast a flattering glow on her sallow, lined features.

The Niobe was lying at single anchor well outside the harbour, having warped clear of all shipping in the night: the breeze had dropped to a dead calm during the middle watch, and even with all scuttles and hatches open it was stiflingly hot below.

The top of the stove glowed a bright cherry red and the room was stiflingly hot.

Enormous retorts of fused quartz must be made, and the Dome is stiflingly hot now, for the sun is beating down on it and enormous oxy-hydrogen flames are needed to fuse the refractory quartz.

Once, aged two, he drifted out of her sight when she was working in the garden and disappeared for ninety minutes-only to be discovered peacefully asleep in a dark, stiflingly hot corner of the hay barn by his distraught parents.

Posters for cancelled amateur recitals and whist drives flapped on the front notice board and it was stiflingly hot and dark inside.