1.   He thought he would make the sweltering day more bearable by having a remembered summer treat of his Bronx and Queens childhood.

2.   He was one of six Cubs pitchers used on another sweltering day at Wrigley Field.

3.   In suit and tie on that sweltering day, but speaking more slowly than in the past, Reagan drew thunderous cheers from the shirt-sleeved crowd.

4.   It is a sweltering day, and James Udesky, a relocated Chicagoan, is making soba noodles by hand in his cramped apartment.

5.   It was a sweltering day in late July on King George Street in downtown Jerusalem.

6.   On a sweltering day last month, Jacky Robert agreed to make a series of courses right out of Escoffier.

7.   On a sweltering first day of summer, it was believed to be only a case of the cramps in both legs, but it was contagious.

8.   On a recent sweltering day, my family packed a picnic basket, slathered ourselves with sunblock and took the D train to the Brighton Beach stop.

9.   She was stuck in rush-hour traffic on the Ventura Freeway one sweltering day last week when road rage blossomed.

10.   The courthouse square in this East Texas town seemed almost eerily quiet on this sweltering day.