How to Use hotbed in a Sentence

hotbed

noun
  • San Diego is a year-round hotbed.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Still, the job is in a recruiting hotbed.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The school is parked in the talent hotbed of Dallas.
    — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But to Luther the monasteries were hotbeds of avarice and pride.
    — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Boys basketball is the hotbed for high school sports transfers.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Big cities are hotbeds of outsourcing.
    — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Alabama was a little bit more of a hotbed for this stuff back in the summer.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 24 Nov. 2020
  • San Diego is a hotbed for pickleball.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond the danger of the app itself, the platform is a hotbed of scams.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • How young tyrannosaurs made their way in the world has long been a hotbed of speculation.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Doyle has taken no pleasure in fighting against football in this hotbed of the sport.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Plenty of research confirms that the kitchen sink is a hotbed of microbes.
    — Susannah Herrada, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • For all its flaws and quirks, Roblox is a hotbed of creativity.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The region has long been a hotbed for trafficking drugs, guns and people.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Today, Conde Duque is a hotbed of all things food, fashion, and art.
    — Benjamin Kemper, CNT, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The armed forces are not often seen as hotbeds of creativity.
    — Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The city has since become a hotbed of new development.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
  • In fact, the city was a hotbed for racial tension and violence before the riots.
    — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Who knew a stuffy academic mixer would be such a hotbed of flirtation!
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But the Twin Cities is emerging as a hotbed of worker activism.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But his hometown of Cite Soleil remains a hotbed for armed attacks.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
  • The town of just over 70,000 is a hotbed for football people.
    — Sam Warren, Houston Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Our story reported that one country was a hotbed of risky selfies.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Denver-Boulder area has long been a hotbed for runners.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
  • At the time, Oakland was one of the hotbeds where protesters and police clashed.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Indeed, they were written in the hotbed of Berlin, where Einstein lived at the time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Those places aren’t exactly hotbeds for future big leaguers.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And Cecina is a hotbed for cinque e cinque, a starch-on-starch sandwich stuffed with a chickpea flatbread.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2021
  • This summer doesn’t have a great free agent class and the Pacers haven’t exactly been a hotbed for free agents.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Feb. 2022
  • That house became a criminal hotbed.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025

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