How to Use hothouse in a Sentence

hothouse

noun

• Still, there were no polar ice caps in the hothouse world of the Mesozoic Era.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• My tomato was the size of a thumbnail, smelled like a whole hothouse, and burned my lips with the first bite.
  — Sheyna Gifford, Time, 2 Apr. 2020
• The unit was a hothouse for some of the rising stars of the commodities business.
  — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Most planets can’t be turned into an ice world and a hothouse at the same time.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
• Start with hothouse vine tomatoes, which have a lot of flavor.
  — oregonlive, 22 June 2021
• Start with hothouse vine tomatoes, which have a lot of flavor.
  — OregonLive.com, 23 June 2017
• Theirs is an emotional hothouse straight out of the pages of Town & Country.
  — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• Earth has been a snowball and a hothouse at different times in its past.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2020
• Or at the Jungle pool (one of six onboard), a hothouse-style haven with faux ferns and a waterfall wall.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2022
• But North Korea’s talent in the cybercrime field is grown in a hothouse.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Most gothic melodramas seem to take place in a hothouse.
  — Charles Taylor, Newsweek, 22 June 2017
• And hothouse options, especially the little ones still attached to the vine, are juicy with a good taste.
  — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• Into the hothouse of Lisbon came those in search of a different kind of information, in the form of the printed word.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• More notably, this book has a swirling hothouse quality that’s new.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• Beds of dill, borage, tarragon, shiso and chives, a pool house doubling as an orchid hothouse and ferns fill the spaces between.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
• Not enough has looked at the hothouse of bullying and peer pressure that today's teens and tweens face - pressure that could crumple many adults.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Compared to the gnarly meats, the yellow noodles were hothouse flowers, soft and retreating.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• If not, just use a mix of mini and English hothouse cucumbers, which are available year-round.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2019
• That might be the more appealing strategy in the hothouse of party primaries.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 June 2019
• The planet hasn't seen hothouse conditions for more than 2.5 million years.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
• These are the fledgling stars of Brazilian soccer: the best and brightest prospects from the most prolific youth system in the world’s greatest hothouse of talent.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• The White House has looked to the trip as a moment to draw Trump out of Washington’s hyper-partisan hothouse and put him in a more statesman-like setting.
  — Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• Osborne spent his childhood at the very best private schools, finishing at St. Paul’s, a hothouse for the clever sons of rich Londoners.
  — Ed Caesar, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
• And the greenhouse potential of the atmosphere can make the difference between a frozen world like Mars and an out-of-control hothouse like Venus.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
• This just takes us deeper into a world dominated by oil and gas—the kind of hothouse in which Putinish despots thrive.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• Any such divide is unlikely to be neat, given how the field of AI ethics sprouted in a tech industry hothouse.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 8 June 2021
• Look for artichokes, bok choy, carrots, green beans, new potatoes and (hothouse) tomatoes at the vegetable stands.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Some of this is the usual hothouse of sports talk—nothing big can happen in sports without someone trying to pooh-pooh and diminish it.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Since opening 20 years ago, the center’s Frank Gehry building has emerged as a hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary and sometimes hard to describe hits.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• When the planet warmed again, it was plunged into a hothouse phase that unleashed phosphates, oxygen, and other elements necessary to build multicellular life.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024