Idiom
heat wave
Meaning
A period of exceptionally hot weather.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We had a heat wave last July.”
“The city opened cooling centers after a heat wave pushed temperatures above 40 degrees.”
“Farmers watched helplessly as the relentless heat wave scorched their crops and dried the rivers to cracked mud.”
Examples
simple
“We had a heat wave last July.”
contextual
“The city opened cooling centers after a heat wave pushed temperatures above 40 degrees.”
complex
“Farmers watched helplessly as the relentless heat wave scorched their crops and dried the rivers to cracked mud.”
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