How to Use white-hot in a Sentence

white-hot

adjective
  • 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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