How to Use hot button in a Sentence

hot button

noun
  • The film is considered very controversial for all the hot buttons it pushes.
  • Benton said this may be the next hot button issue the board faces.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Healthcare has become even more of a hot button.
    — Cbs News Atlanta Staff, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Placing a shelter in Venice has been a hot button issue for years.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Depending on the hot button issue, the banning of books can come from the right or the left.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Hopkins police force is a hot button issue in the city and has been so for the past few years.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
  • On Survivor, there’s no more hot button issue than food hoarding.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Rising rents appear to be a hotter button for single women than for men.
    — Kenneth R. Harney, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
  • Eggs and housing costs have been some of the inflationary hot buttons around the nation for the past year or so.
    — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Blackburn didn’t leave a single culture-war hot button unpressed.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The same was true for another hot button case about Ohio's method for purging voters from its rolls.
    — CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
  • This extends beyond voting records, to many of today’s hot button issues.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 July 2020
  • The best thing to do if technoference is a hot button issue in your relationship?
    — Nikki Campo, SELF, 3 May 2022
  • His pastoral positions, though, are not well known, as he's rarely spoken out on some of the church's hot button issues.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 6 May 2025
  • The looming outfield production is still a hot button topic.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026
  • After all, many of us tend to have strong opinions on any number of hot button topics from world hunger and healthcare to climate change.
    — Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • The 14-time Grammy winner’s air travel have been a hot button issue as of late.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The region has been a hot button political issue in both countries.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025
  • He's seen as vulnerable this year because the race is centered on the hot button issue of housing.
    — OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
  • The question of what to do with the property has become a political hot button.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
  • For driver advocates, sick pay has been the hot button labor issue of the pandemic.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 7 June 2020
  • What’s your advice for discussing a hot button issue with someone who clearly sees the world through a lens that’s different from yours?
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The submissions from here focus on the universal hot button subject of climate change.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Coming up, Kamala Harris moves to the middle on some hot button issues.
    — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • That has become a hot button issue, with both the left and the right side of the political aisle accusing the chatbot of bias.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Keeping up with the local teams and the hot button issues of the Bay Area is mandatory for her radio gig.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2021
  • Steve Sarkisian discovered what a hot button issue the school song can be in his second season at Texas.
    — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • For his part, Alex is frustrated that something as simple as trying to play sports with his peers has become such a hot button issue.
    — Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Xinjiang supplies more than 80 percent of China’s cotton, but has been a hot button issue for years.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The expansion has been a hot button issue in the islands since its proposal in January.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2016

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