How to Use hotheaded in a Sentence

hotheaded

adjective
  • He wrote a hotheaded letter.
  • The trouble is that your hotheaded intervention didn’t just change your friend’s mind about her post.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That is, until her hotheaded pimp Larry yanks her from her barstool and pushes her onto the street.
    — Karmen Fox, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The hotheaded naked ice borer now has its own Wikipedia page and appears on lists of the greatest hoaxes of all time.
    — Paul Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2011
  • Rei, hotheaded and ever ready to speak her mind, and Ami, shyer and more interior.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Joe questions his own hotheaded, shoot-from-the-hip nature, especially when age gets in the way of taking action.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • Ventura's young hotheaded attitude versus Ryan's old-school grit was a match made in heaven for fans.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Montgomery played the hotheaded older brother of Max (Sadie Sink).
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Refusing to give up, two hotheaded rivals try to pull Tayshia into the fray right before the rose ceremony.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 17 Nov. 2020
  • If Freeman’s unflappable version of the character is a trope, so is Hodge’s hotheaded one.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Four former Green Berets who served with Goudreau called him a gifted warfighter who could be both charismatic and hotheaded.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
  • And violence intrudes when Roz grows impatient for results and deploys hotheaded Calum to clean up the mess.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • While Yasuke is considered level-headed, Naoe is more hotheaded.
    — EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The numbing routine of the hospital is disrupted when a hotheaded, seriously injured young man bursts in.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • As the opposite of the hotheaded Ne Zha, Ao Bing fittingly has ice powers.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Ledbetter’s struggles with her hotheaded son, as well as her triumphs as an accomplished ballroom dancer outside of work, also get a half-hearted treatment.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Verstappen, who races for Red Bull-Honda, is the hotheaded 24-year-old pretender trying to stop him.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The Caps avoided any hotheaded retaliation and concentrated on a gritty effort that was enough to even the series.
    — Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com, 31 May 2018
  • The chaotic early months of the campaign gave him a reputation in some parts of the Obama administration as reckless and hotheaded.
    — Mark Landler and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • Friday Night Lights role, while Thurman seems to be having a blast adopting a thick accent and a syrupy smile to purr sweet nothings into her hotheaded founder’s ear.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The cold temperatures don’t do much to cool the hotheaded detectives as tensions start to boil between Foster and Reis’ characters.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Adam Sandler will reprise his role as the hotheaded hockey player turned pro golfer in Happy Gilmore 2, Netflix announced.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 15 May 2024
  • The Irishman was famous for his hotheaded attitude - mostly directed to those at Arsenal.
    — SI.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The site is chock full of emotional letters that present Maimaron as a caring and patient educator, in stark contrast to the crude and hotheaded coach described by several players.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The impulsive Moon begins the day in hotheaded Aries, finding provocations everywhere.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
  • For various reasons—his kids are off from school during the robbery; his getaway driver drops out; his hotheaded gunman arouses suspicion—his haphazard caper doesn’t lead to riches.
    — Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The rest of the bistro staff — a hotheaded grill chef, a slacker dishwasher, an aspiring actress, an ebullient Scotsman, an overwhelmed French prep cook and many more — vividly add to the whirl and swirl.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The screenplay begins in 1989, charting Christy’s trajectory as a hotheaded yet gifted fledgling boxer.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The title character is Lady Violet, who poses as a garden girl while putting some distance between herself and her hotheaded lover, Count Belfiore.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Because the first sign of the zodiac is ruled by Mars, the planet of action and aggression, kids with an Aries influence tend to be hotheaded and leap before looking, which can lead to head-butting and accidents.
    — Maressa Brown, Parents, 18 June 2026

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