How to Use hot spot in a Sentence

hot spot

noun
  • The new restaurant is the latest hot spot in town.
  • This part of the country is a hot spot of rebel activity.
  • From the rooms at Biltmore to hot spots around the charming town of Asheville.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • While moving through the charred home putting out hot spots, crews found the body.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • As the tectonic plate moves over the hot spot, the ground is forced up.
    oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The waterfront has emerged as a hot spot for the mammals in 1989.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
  • This draws sweat away from the foot, and helps reduce hot spots that cause blisters.
    Bob Beacham, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
  • London, a cool tourism hot spot, is revved up for a tourist-eager 2024.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But Quito is stepping up as a hot spot for design, food, and more.
    Ian Volner, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There are rules about tinting, but what if the windshield could track the hot spot and just darken that?
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 17 July 2022
  • That could put the Federal Reserve in a hot spot, even if the central bank tries to avoid it.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The old Sandusky Bay Bridge is a hot spot for the catfish crowds both during the day and after dark.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 7 July 2022
  • Then, meet the architects using drones to map hot spots in our cities.
    CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The beaches here are known as a hot spot for shark's teeth; visit during low tide to find them.
    Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
  • Blaque Cigar Lounge has become a hot spot in Huntsville and expansion appears to be in the plans.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 19 Mar. 2022
  • This area near the Nantucket Shoals wasn’t always such a right whale hot spot.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The Conrad sets up cream umbrellas and lounge chairs on its two miles of sand, but the pools are the resort’s hot spot.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In Avdiivka, a hot spot in the battle for the city is an industrial zone to the east.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The trip continues with a flight to Mykonos, a party hot spot in the middle of the Aegean Sea, and then a short boat ride to Delos.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 July 2024
  • Columbia became a hot spot of protests and counter-protests, as students tried to work out the meaning of the war.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
  • The cool crowd that’s always first to sniff out the greatest new restaurant in town knows Vecino is one of the top hot spots of the year.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2024
  • The North Atlantic had hot spots that alarmed scientists.
    Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • And this morning there are still two wildfires burning as fire crews work to put out hot spots.
    ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Varona, her husband, went to work on a ladder truck, putting water on hot spots in Wahikuli.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Croatia The summer months have the streets of Croatian hot spots like Dubrovnik and Split packed with crowds.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The 5-mile lake is also a hot spot for fishing; think rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon.
    J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • These have a glove-like fit with an upper that doesn’t overlap too much around the top of your foot, which helps reduce hot spots.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • It’s Friday, April 29, and the North Bay’s quiet suburbs are the newest hot spot for pastries and cakes.
    Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Berlin, Tokyo, and Paris are hot spots for entries, but the site has grown to include users worldwide with 3.2 million marked places.
    Jaclyn Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The Czech capital is the latest European tourism hot spot pushing back on crowds, amid concerns about the impact on locals’ quality of life.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024

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