1.   After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.

2.   But in it was something good, something with ramifications that far transcend this upsetting loss on this sweltering July afternoon.

3.   It was a sweltering July afternoon and Bob Baffert thought he was done buying horses.

4.   The bluesman and museum teacher Johnnie Billington, who closed the show, walked around in the sweltering afternoon in a coat and tie.

5.   The couple collect rainwater in a plastic pitcher to cool their throats on sweltering afternoons.

6.   The day before, on a sweltering afternoon, he walked through the boarded-up streets of the Mississippi Delta town of Clarksdale.

7.   Miller and Faldo each battled their emotions at the podium on a sweltering afternoon.

8.   Shops close their shutters for several hours every sweltering afternoon and the streets empty.

9.   But Boetsch started the next game with a double fault, his sixth of the sweltering afternoon.

10.   The president spent a sweltering afternoon here in rural Tennessee helping to rebuild a black baptist church that had burned down last year.