How to Use hot and heavy in a Sentence

hot and heavy

adjective
  • Dana and Katie are hot and heavy together.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The competition is also hot and heavy on the local sports scene.
    — Kathleen Hill, The Providence Journal, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Our love affair with the movies, with the very idea of Hollywood, has been hot and heavy for more than a century.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Avoiding hot and heavy meals also can reduce your body's overall temperature.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Eventually, Annie and Link pair off and things get hot and heavy in the Jungle Room.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • With both a trustee and mayoral election in the offing for next year, the committee is girding itself for a hot and heavy election season in 2027.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • And while their steamy, sweaty dalliances are hot and heavy (albeit mostly clothed), most swoonworthy are the smaller moments, like Heathcliff gently cupping his hands to keep the rain out of Cathy’s eyes.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • By April, the former couple were Instagram official and posting hot and heavy vacation pics that quickly spiralled them into relationship goals.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Artisanal, electric energy has occupied the grand bones of this intoxicating city, with young creatives animating the unbuttoned cafés and bars filling its old town’s squares—the air always hot and heavy with wafts of arancini and zucchini fritti.
    — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • One week later, in the June 28 episode, Trinity and Bryce Alakai Dettloff were back in bed together after Casa Amor, and things quickly got hot and heavy between them.
    — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026
  • The first two seasons were told from Louis's point of view, but now the camera flips to the punk-rock Lestat, and Reid's hot and heavy depiction of the blonde creature of the night made famous in Anne Rice's novels and the 1994 film adaptation (played by Tom Cruise).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 June 2026

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