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sizzling

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verb

present participle of sizzle
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as in hissing
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ from my bed I could hear the bacon sizzling in the frying pan

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
  • Even if Robert Morris is outmatched on paper, the Tide's blazing tempo means extra possessions, which gives Folgueiras a golden opportunity to stuff the stat sheet.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • However, the Northern Irishman’s blazing play would falter a bit, bogeying the 14th hole while Spaun birdied the 14th and 16th holes.
    Jacob Lev, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As Pure focused on establishing its presence in enterprise storage, the AI market (really HPC and AI) has become white-hot, and companies like VAST Data have leaned far more heavily into the complex data management that is required to make an underlying storage architecture perform at scale.
    Matt Kimball, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • There was understandable tension in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich, but something was bubbling from minute one against Porto.
    Art de Roché, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
  • One perk is that the bubbling stream provides the ideal ecosystem where hemlock and rhododendron thrive along the banks.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That same year, the Legislature appropriated $180 million that the Air Resources Board could use to fund alternatives to burning.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • However, these formations can also arise from volcanic processes, such as the rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during an eruption, or from meteorite impacts, upon which vaporized rocks condense.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Joining other efforts to decarbonize the steel-production process such as those using hydrogen to refine iron ore, Boston Metal has pioneered a process known as molten oxide electrolysis (MOE).
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Seldom acknowledged, these folks work in freezing early season games or torrid Sunday afternoon contests and those in between with a friendly smile and welcoming attitude.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Maresca, so often ashen-faced in these torrid last two months, was eager to emphasise the positives of a win that gives the Premier League table a brighter complexion for Chelsea.
    Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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