How to Use torrid in a Sentence

torrid

adjective
  • The team had a torrid time trying to score.
  • The man had been torrid since coming on in the 81st minute.
    SI.com, 3 July 2019
  • Ramirez has returned to his All-Star form with a torrid streak over the past two months.
    Tom Withers, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The amount of this that exists is growing at a torrid pace.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 31 May 2018
  • After a torrid spring, Luis Matos didn’t have to toil at Triple-A for long.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The 27-year-old followed up a strong first half with a torrid run after the All-Star break.
    Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Williamson is off to a torrid start, hitting .692 with four RBI through three games.
    Mark Billingsley, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The New Orleans Saints star running back is off to a torrid start to the 2020 season.
    Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • And the pace of bond issuance so far this year, , has been double that of last year’s torrid pace.
    Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 17 June 2020
  • In the five games leading up to that torrid streak, Knecht totaled 39 points.
    Al Lesar, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But even O’Reilly and his torrid start only finished the year with 26 points in 81 games.
    Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Jacob Melton enters the game on a torrid streak, with nine hits in his last 13 at-bats.
    oregonlive, 13 May 2022
  • Bournemouth in contrast are having a torrid time of late.
    SI.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Still, such a torrid start to the season was a pleasant surprise.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The torrid summers in the South have become even more torrid.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • The Blazers are a torrid 5 of 5 on three-pointers in the early going.
    oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2020
  • That's after a torrid stretch that's seen the greenback climb in four of the last five sessions—a bad sign for big-cap stocks.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, the Giants have come down to Earth after a torrid start to the season.
    Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The wait cooled a torrid start. Affording it to him, though, was overdue.
    Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
  • As one of many young players on first-year coach Dann Giesey's team, Chialdikas is hitting at a torrid pace from the No.
    Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Max Muncy went three for four with an RBI to continue his torrid stretch.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2021
  • Carraway was on a torrid pace then with 34 points in six games including a hat trick in all of those games.
    Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Fred, meanwhile, engages in a torrid and high-toned affair of his own.
    Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • But the torrid pace of the for-sale market raises the question: Just how long can this continue?
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Over a grinding dance beat, Smith sings about a torrid affair taking place in a garage.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Sean Kilpatrick continued his torrid stretch with 20 points to lead the Bulls.
    K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Lux then smashed his grand slam to continue his torrid May.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Since that torrid campaign, United have risen to the pinnacle of football and crashed all the way back down.
    SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Jaffee’s first effort, the first of 33 in black and white, was constructed around the torrid Liz Taylor-Richard Burton affair.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the West Highland Way is also steeped in natural beauty, from its scattered and steep Munros to its torrid rivers and boggy grasslands.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024

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