1.   He stepped off the plane into the tropical heat.

2.   Slumbering restlessly in the tropical heat.

3.   He was drenched with sweat in the tropical heat as he stood amid the temple ruins the other day.

4.   On Sunday and Monday, several men who had fled this hamlet returned to carry corpses rotting in the tropical heat to a mass grave dug outside of town.

5.   Once the bumpy football-size cacao pods are harvested, the beans are taken out and left to ferment for a few days in the tropical heat.

6.   Others lie on mats on the floor, dozing in the midday tropical heat or playing cards with tattered decks.

7.   Special narrators read aloud to the cigar rollers to maintain their concentration and help fight the drowsiness brought on by the tropical heat.

8.   The manager stood behind the batting cage at Veterans Stadium as the National League took batting practice in tropical heat.

9.   The smart card, treated to withstand the tropical heat, is slipped into the transponder on the dashboard.

10.   The tropical heat was relentless in the waiting room of Noi Bai Airport as Vietnamese immigration officers inspected each new visitor.