How to Use heat wave in a Sentence

heat wave

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  • The heat wave is the worst to hit China in six decades.
    — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The body was exposed to a heat wave that baked the region.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In the summer of 2022 a heat wave in London dried out the lakes in Crystal Palace Park.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Free 7-Eleven Slurpees are here just in time to fend off this summer's heat wave.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • The lingering drought and heat wave across the western and central U.S.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And a July 1995 heat wave took a similar toll in the Farm Belt.
    — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But if the heat persists, or if there are too many marine heat waves back-to-back, the corals die.
    — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The heat wave scorching California may be one of the worst on record for the state.
    — Christopher Hickey, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This kind of heat wave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Odds seem to be growing for a late-season heat wave next week.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The heat wave will increase the risk for heat illness, the weather service said.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Over the past decade, the country has faced increasing droughts, wildfires, and heat waves.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Zoe is the first-ever heat wave to be named like hurricanes.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2022
  • This region of the Pacific has been under the grip of a marine heat wave since May.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The summer of 2023 was marked by heat waves throughout the Northern hemisphere.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Last summer saw brutal heat waves roil large parts of the country, which claimed at least 200 lives.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That heat wave shattered records since the system first hit the region on July 2.
    — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
  • Europe is in the midst of a heat wave, and while Olympic athletes in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games might be spared the worst of it, the weather will still be hot.
    — Brian P. McCullough, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • The issues of brown-outs, floods, droughts, rougher seas, heat waves, etc. could describe both Shenzhen and Houston in the past year.
    — Kenneth Dewoskin, Fortune, 15 May 2024
  • As a dangerous heat wave hits the nation, Phoenix is poised to break its record for most 110-degree days.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • When the inevitable August heat wave hits hard, lay out with a glass of green gazpacho.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The irony is that many of the same users likely dismissed the notion that this summer's record heat wave was the result of climate change.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Price tag for a ride has climbed since 2018 launch, but growth had been strong until July’s scorching heat wave.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Non-urgent tasks would have to be postponed during heat waves.
    — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • This event triggered droughts, floods, heat waves and other weather extremes around the world.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Like many Americans, Michael Pittman had grown used to strains on the electric grid from summer heat waves or storms.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Nation/World The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • Marine heat waves are killing sea life and fueling stronger storms.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • And as climate change ramps up, with its onslaught of unprecedented heat waves, conditions in prisons will only worsen.
    — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
  • If a hurricane passes over a marine heat wave—that are increasingly sweeping through the oceans—storm growth is immediate, as seen in both Helene and Milton.
    — Porter Fox, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024

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