How to Use white-hot in a Sentence
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And so is the white-hot glare of the spotlight now trained on Trump.
— Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023 -
The follow-up to his white-hot 2022 has been less thrilling.
— The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics and the white-hot spotlight that comes with it.
— CBS News, 30 June 2024 -
Inviting that in brought with it a white-hot rage, and a deep sense of clarity.
— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 -
By the third day, the two cores combined into a single white-hot core—the makings of a future planet.
— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023 -
As Buolamwini well knows, in the white-hot world of AI, there’s plenty of unmasking yet to be done.
— Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023 -
Jeremy Allen White’s stylist is taking fans behind the scenes of his white-hot awards season style!
— Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024 -
To the queen, her face an increasingly strained mask for her white-hot fury, they may as well have been cast into the wilderness.
— Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024 -
Rest assured, the desert set literally felt white-hot that day.
— Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2024 -
If the idea was to bring the temperature down to something less white-hot, its mission was accomplished.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024 -
When power is plentiful, those coils can heat up the graphite blocks to a glowing, white-hot temperature of over 2,700°F.
— TIME, 24 Oct. 2023 -
Ahsoka stakes her claim to her own series with a dazzling display of white-hot swordplay.
— Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The property was reportedly lent (or leased) to Michael Jackson for a short time back in 2007, the white-hot apex of the late King of Pop’s molestation scandal.
— Mark David, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023 -
Despite enormous long-term potential, the short-term market bubble will likely burst before AI is smart enough to live up to the white-hot hype.
— Niall Ferguson, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024 -
The question of who will succeed Logan Roy is at the white-hot center of Succession—and this week’s episode adds unexpected new twists to the drama.
— Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 3 Apr. 2023 -
But now, in the face of global climate change and human impact, the river is under threat, presenting conflict in an already white-hot part of the world.
— Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Lawmakers and investors alike will be tuning in to this key data point to determine if the white-hot US labor market showed any sign of cooling at the start of the year.
— Alicia Wallace, Krystal Hur, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023 -
In the kitchen, Lori Harvey organized an impromptu fashion show for TikTok, and the white-hot clip has racked up nearly 4 million views so far.
— Vogue, 5 July 2023 -
These are the types of debates that rage white-hot after every significant, and some not-so-significant, event in men’s sports.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023 -
During the white-hot labor market of the past couple of years, Americans have been earning healthy wage increases but putting in fewer hours.
— Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023 -
By midday, the canyons and gorges of the vast park near the border of Nevada shimmered beneath the white-hot sun, but the relentless, eyeball-stinging heat wasn’t enough to stop visitors from braving the danger.
— Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023 -
Unlike my top surgery, the white-hot pain of being estranged from my only living parent sliced through me without any anesthetic.
— Chala June, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2023 -
When a star like our sun expands into a red giant and sheds its outer layers, eventually the only thing left is a dense, white-hot stellar corpse known as a white dwarf.
— Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023 -
Her white-hot performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto certainly defied the cliche of this as cool Nordic music.
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 June 2023 -
In the ’90s, few personalities — several dozen, at most — were positioned at the white-hot core of the insanity.
— David Friend, Washington Post, 27 June 2024 -
On stage, drag artist Aphrodite Banks is a femme fatale: Caked in war paint, with a waterfall of braids whipping around her waist, she’s possessed of the white-hot glare and forthright confidence to match her Amazonian height and bearing.
— Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The book was, ideologically speaking, white-hot, and it was written with a throbbing narrative drive.
— Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 9 July 2024 -
Vogel arrived in Washington 23 years ago amid the explosion of artsy, boutique hotels — which, like many restaurants, are white-hot for a year or two, then disappear.
— Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023 -
Would Glover and then collaborator Phoebe Waller-Bridge—originally set to co-write and co-star—be able to generate even a fraction of the white-hot chemistry that sustained the original movie?
— Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024 -
After a white-hot blaze of hype, Elevators disappeared.
— Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
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