On a steamy afternoon it is pleasant to enter through the fort's original portal.

On a steamy afternoon not long ago, his soldiers lounged under its shade.

On steamy afternoons, visitors to the Met's rooftop garden may want to slip downstairs to cool off.

On one steamy afternoon, our request for lemonade was rejected because "the kitchen didn't have enough lemons."

Mr. Lake has an upfront, flickering style on alto, and his improvisations cut through the steamy afternoon.

Mickelson had begun with a three-shot lead on a steamy afternoon, and it slowly left him as the day wore on.

The time: a recent steamy afternoon.

But throughout the cloudy, steamy afternoon his iron shots had soared like arrows at the flagsticks.

On this steamy afternoon, though, Ms. Pasternak is dealing with, let's call it, a situation.

Or canoe across the salt pond on a steamy afternoon; or rent a Windsurfer for a morning's humiliation.