Word Finder - summer

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One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

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the heat of summer

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Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

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He was barely eighteen summers old.

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Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

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To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

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We like to summer in the Mediterranean.

It was warm and sweet, like a summer rain.

Living in that house and using the pool would be like a summer vacation, not a job.

You've got the summer off.

They sold like homemade ice cream on a summer day.

The summer had been very dry and the corn crop had failed.

My most vivid recollection of that summer is the ocean.

Across the lake, the beginning glow of from the late summer sun broke through the low clouds, signaling an end to the rain.

This same summer the pond has begun to fall again.

In the course of the summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on, pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built.

In general, the summer of 1812 was remarkable for its storms.

The village is a summer resort.

Parents kept their children at home, especially in the summer, and certainly away from public swimming areas.

I was in the North, enjoying the last beautiful days of the summer of 1896, when I heard the news of my father's death.

These were the shrines I visited both summer and winter.

The doctors said that she could not get on without medical treatment, so they kept her in the stifling atmosphere of the town, and the Rostovs did not move to the country that summer of 1812.

That was my summer life.

It was summer, a wonderful time of year in New Hampshire and on Friday, three weeks after her first visit, Julie returned to Keene.

If they were going north, I could pick up some duds for next summer....

The township is a summer resort.

After last summer's adventures, we're up to any task!

When all outside is cold and white, when the little children of the woodland are gone to their nurseries in the warm earth, and the empty nests on the bare trees fill with snow, my window-garden glows and smiles, making summer within while it is winter without.

In the middle of the summer Princess Mary received an unexpected letter from Prince Andrew in Switzerland in which he gave her strange and surprising news.

Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.

Only Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, who had come to Petersburg that summer to see one of her sons, allowed herself plainly to express an opinion contrary to the general one.

I also have an offer to work at the law office where I worked last summer.

Actually, she knew very little about the man with whom she had promised to spend the summer.

It was one of those perfect spring days that held the promise of summer.

The afternoon sun bathed them like summer, and Dean, in spite of being coatless, was embraced by the warmth.

The Arctic-Alpine sub-region consists of races of plants belonging originally to the general flora, and recruited by subsequent additrons, which have been specialized in low stature and great capacity of endurance to survive long dormant periods, sometimes even unbroken in successive years by the transitory activity of the brief summer.

Peking suffered severely during the Boxer movement and the siege of the legations in the summer of 1900.

In the summer of 1729 he was up for two months.

The winter, which is very stormy, lasts from November to March; spring begins in April, but it is the middle of June before warmth becomes general, and by the end of August summer is gone.

Several times during summer the trees ought to be regularly examined, and the young shoots respectively topped or thinned out; those that remain are to be nailed to the wall, or braced in with pieces of slender twigs, and the trees ought occasionally to be washed with the garden engine or thoroughly syringed, especially during very hot summers.

But I must not forget that I was going to write about last summer in particular.

One beautiful summer day, not long after my meeting with Dr. Holmes, Miss Sullivan and I visited Whittier in his quiet home on the Merrimac.

I promised to visit him again the following summer, but he died before the promise was fulfilled.

His moods came and went like summer storms.

He reminded her of Jonny when her brother had learned of his father's death last summer.

It was a weekly summer ritual for one or the other, but seldom both; they enjoyed stocking up on local-grown produce.

She had removed the sides of the shelter a few weeks ago for the summer so they would have fresh air and a breeze as well.

The spring air was heavy and humid already in Atlanta; it felt like summer.

Dean answered a phone call—a six-month-early summer reservation—while waving to the departing guests.

We know you and your good buddy Jake Weller played it fast and loose last summer when that guy Glick got killed.

McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861, and Union control was never seriously threatened, in spite of Lee's attempt in the same year.

During the summer time it has water of sufficient depth for steamers of light draft as far as Nan-ch'ang, and it is navigable by native craft for a considerable distance beyond that city.

He arrived in England in the following June, and spent the summer at Sheffield Place, where his presence was even more highly prized than it had ever before been.

The perennial lakes, such as those just described, hold their waters for years and perhaps centuries; but the ephemeral lakes usually evaporate in the course of the summer.

When the waters evaporate in the summer they leave a clay bed of remarkable hardness, which is sometimes encrusted with saline matter of a snowy whiteness and dazzles the eyes of the traveller.

In spite of the high temperatures of summer, however, the low humidity prevents the heat from being oppressive, and cases of sunstroke are unknown.

Plough the fallow in early spring, and plough frequently - twice in winter, twice in summer unless your land is poor, when a light ploughing in September will do.