How to Use heat wave in a Sentence

heat wave

noun

• 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 a heat wave, some people wait too long to turn on the AC.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
• The heat wave has, for now, thrown those plans into doubt.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
• By Tuesday night, the skies above London had opened; the worst of the heat wave was over, for now.
  — Rosa Prince, CNN, 20 July 2022
• Here's what to know That was a heat wave, but what about climate change?
  — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
• 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
• During the June heat wave last year, Portland reached a record of 116.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2022
• Free 7-Eleven Slurpees are here just in time to fend off this summer's heat wave.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• But the heat wave is not expect to stick around for long in northern Utah.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2022
• This is not the first heat wave for Europe this season.
  — Julie Coleman, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• 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
• The heat wave will begin Wednesday with highs in the lower to middle 90s.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 5 Apr. 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
• What is certain, though, is the devastation the heat wave has wreaked.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2022
• 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
• Kansas City weather can keep you on your toes, from heat waves to icy winter storms.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
• As the world faces increasingly extreme weather, research is finding that heat waves are being underestimated in some parts of the world.
  — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025