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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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
  • This photo of a blazing Pacific Palisades hillside?
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Upgrade your tech and save big with 38% off the Samsung SSD 870 EVO, bringing blazing speeds and unbeatable durability for gaming or creative work.
    Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Davis’ white-hot gala will take place on Feb. 1, the same day of the Special Merit Awards, which will pay tribute to Prince, Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Roxanne Shante and Frankie Valli.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, astronomers observed that the black hole’s corona – a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma – suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 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
  • This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.
    Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 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
  • These large pockets of molten material rise through the Earth from deep inside its interior, much like the movement in a lava lamp.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Their research suggested that a Mars-size object crashed into the early Earth, jettisoning molten material into space.
    Francis Nimmo, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But a soft tissue injury sustained in October sidelined her for five weeks; what transpired was a torrid spell in the league for Spurs, who suffered heavy defeats to United (3-0), Chelsea (5-2), Manchester City (4-0) and Arsenal (3-0) and looked frail in possession and exposed in defence.
    Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And playing this torrid Knights squad will be no easy task.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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