How to Use hotshot in a Sentence

hotshot

noun
  • That guy thinks he's a real hotshot.
  • The company has hired a couple of young hotshots to revamp its advertising campaign.
  • Matthew III is from Prescott and knew some of the hotshots, his father said.
    Anne Ryman, azcentral, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Fowler is in the middle of a traffic jam of hotshot U.S. players at the top of the golf world.
    Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
  • It's been almost five years since the hotshots were killed.
    Karina Bland, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Blue Ridge had helped battle the blaze that killed Billy and the hotshot crew.
    Karina Bland, azcentral, 19 May 2017
  • At a glance, two hours of our favorite hotshots sounds too good to be true.
    Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 26 Jan. 2020
  • But the hotshots were an elite crew, and Dustin was a good firefighter.
    Alden Woods, azcentral, 29 June 2018
  • Each of the 19 hotshots is memorialized along the way with a plaque.
    Martin Savidge, CNN, 30 June 2017
  • Jim Montgomery was a hotshot hire out of the college ranks.
    Dallas News, 20 May 2022
  • Word had begun to spread that the guitar hotshot was about to go on tour with David Bowie.
    Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Fire drew him into that life, carrying him to Prescott and the hotshot crew.
    Alden Woods, azcentral, 29 June 2018
  • Several air tankers and hotshot crews have been assigned to fight the blaze.
    Chris Cohen, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2014
  • More than a decade later, Chloe is a hotshot New York artist whose portraits of Jon have made her a star.
    Hannah Orenstein, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
  • So that hotshot listening to Journey in the convertible that zips to the end of the closing lane and merges in?
    Bob Strickley, Cincinnati.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Now in his mid-20s, the Nashville native has been a hotshot on the Telecaster since his teens.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Hamm is in his sweet spot here as a former hotshot now emptied of ideals and passion.
    Gary Thompson, kansascity, 12 Apr. 2018
  • At Loop, three hotshots died en route to the hospital, two more in the days following.
    Longreads, 9 May 2017
  • The two seasons Sue Husari spent as a hotshot led to a 45-year career in fire management.
    Amanda Monthei, Outside Online, 23 July 2020
  • Every year since its founding in 1973, the NIHF welcomes a new group of brainy hotshots to join its ranks.
    Michael Calore, Wired, 7 Jan. 2020
  • But Tyler Horton is no longer the hotshot young cornerback on the Boise State defense.
    Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 1 Aug. 2017
  • In recent years, Mario Badescu has a become hotshot in the self-care world.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • More young, monied tech and finance hotshots would do well to take some cues from business leaders like Ng.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
  • And a group of 60 tech hotshots are petitioning Bezos to choose New York City.
    Natasha Bach, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Coombs left soon after Alex Grinch was hired as a hotshot secondary coach with a bigger title and more pay.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
  • So, maybe the Dolphins, in hiring Flores, will make the teams that went for the unproven offensive hotshots look like fools.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • In 2013, a whole hotshot crew [from Granite Mountain Arizona] was lost.
    Noah Davis, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2015
  • Shaheen Holloway, the team’s hotshot coach, left for his alma mater Seton Hall.
    Laine Higgins, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Owen Wilson is still the only man who could voice Lightning McQueen, who has gone from hotshot to has-been on the racing circuit.
    Loey Lockerby, kansascity.com, 14 June 2017
  • That was particularly fortunate for residents of California, where, according to the union, 12% of Forest Service engines went unstaffed and had to be effectively shut down and six hotshot crews did not have enough firefighters to operate.
    ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024

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