How to Use hothead in a Sentence

hothead

noun
  • Working on the project with such a hothead has been unpleasant.
  • As a younger man, he was known as a hothead who talked back to cops.
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Hamid, the hothead of the group, is eager to kill Eghbal.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • So what comes next for our favorite hothead and her troubled romances?
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 May 2022
  • He isn’t known as a hothead, and his disciplinary record is pretty clean.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But embittered hothead Sean is in no mood for building bridges.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2019
  • Gutierrez — the hothead in the video, who has since been terminated — joined in.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Bickle has shown over the decades a tendency to be a hothead, and his antics can rub some spectators the wrong way.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2021
  • His figurehead gets clapped because the sight of the police in the Bronx makes itchy hotheads smell a setup.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Johnny, the Human Torch, has been depicted in past movies as a hothead and a jokester.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
  • Orton was a bit of a hothead and got in a few in-game altercations during games in China.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 25 July 2021
  • Prosecutors portrayed him as a hothead who didn't like trespassers.
    — Ed White, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Josh is also the most innocuous, non-threatening version of a hothead.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The news stories described Momeni as a hothead with a quick temper and an appetite for cocaine.
    — Albert Samaha, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Adams’s supporters, for their part, called Jackson a hothead, a murderer, and a tyrant.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • In the trio of all-time greats, he had always been cast as the hothead, the frothing ball of intensity that might explode at any moment.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 July 2022
  • Dunne was a good writer, a spirited gossip, an inspired raconteur, and a hothead with a chronic temper.
    — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • One of football's hotheads, the 33-year-old has amassed no less than 24 red cards during his time in Spain's top-flight.
    — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Dougal is basically just a slutty dumb jock with a penchant for violence, and no one wants a hothead for a leader.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And, for another first, her hothead temper and short fuse actually come in handy in dispatching yaoguai.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The guy, Moran said, was relentless, and Moran had a reputation back then for being a bit of a hothead.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • By favoring ultra-aggressive hotheads, the financial world may be throwing a human-sized wrench in its own gears.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2009
  • The king defending his crown, eager to retire but forced to hold on for the good of the empire, or the hothead ready to take to the mattresses in the name of all the marbles.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
  • War on the Korean peninsula or a nuclear exchange between two hotheads could stop trade in a hurry.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 9 Aug. 2017
  • One coach went as far as comparing his antics to famous tennis hothead John McEnroe.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Prosecutors portrayed Titus as a hothead who didn’t like trespassers.
    — ABC News, 18 May 2026
  • Prosecutors portrayed Titus as a hothead who didn't like trespassers.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Bob Corker is known around Washington as a sensible pragmatist, not a thin-skinned hothead.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Grant plays a beautiful half-French, half-Sioux woman toward who the hothead makes unwanted advances.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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