How to Use hothouse in a Sentence

hothouse

noun
  • Start with hothouse vine tomatoes, which have a lot of flavor.
    — OregonLive.com, 23 June 2017
  • Start with hothouse vine tomatoes, which have a lot of flavor.
    — oregonlive, 22 June 2021
  • Most planets can’t be turned into an ice world and a hothouse at the same time.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Earth has been a snowball and a hothouse at different times in its past.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2020
  • My tomato was the size of a thumbnail, smelled like a whole hothouse, and burned my lips with the first bite.
    — Sheyna Gifford, Time, 2 Apr. 2020
  • More notably, this book has a swirling hothouse quality that’s new.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The unit was a hothouse for some of the rising stars of the commodities business.
    — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
  • Still, there were no polar ice caps in the hothouse world of the Mesozoic Era.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • So don’t enter our hothouse with your refined sugar or nuance!
    — Carrie McCrossen, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Theirs is an emotional hothouse straight out of the pages of Town & Country.
    — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Or at the Jungle pool (one of six onboard), a hothouse-style haven with faux ferns and a waterfall wall.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2022
  • And hothouse options, especially the little ones still attached to the vine, are juicy with a good taste.
    — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • If not, just use a mix of mini and English hothouse cucumbers, which are available year-round.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2019
  • That might be the more appealing strategy in the hothouse of party primaries.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 June 2019
  • But North Korea’s talent in the cybercrime field is grown in a hothouse.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Compared to the gnarly meats, the yellow noodles were hothouse flowers, soft and retreating.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Beds of dill, borage, tarragon, shiso and chives, a pool house doubling as an orchid hothouse and ferns fill the spaces between.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
  • Not enough has looked at the hothouse of bullying and peer pressure that today's teens and tweens face - pressure that could crumple many adults.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Look for artichokes, bok choy, carrots, green beans, new potatoes and (hothouse) tomatoes at the vegetable stands.
    — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Yet his ego is a delicate hothouse flower, threatened by the slightest puff of criticism.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 5 July 2017
  • The group recall the hothouse atmosphere that produced some of their most beloved, enduring anthems.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Some of this is the usual hothouse of sports talk—nothing big can happen in sports without someone trying to pooh-pooh and diminish it.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Garnish as one desires, perhaps with a juicy blackberry or a hothouse flower, something dewy and tremulous, to be sure.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • This just takes us deeper into a world dominated by oil and gas—the kind of hothouse in which Putinish despots thrive.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Now the tomatoes are heirloom from hothouses, and unfortunately, my tomato slices were mushy.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The documentary attempts to sketch out what that means for someone like Andrew, who was raised in a hothouse of dysfunction.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Any such divide is unlikely to be neat, given how the field of AI ethics sprouted in a tech industry hothouse.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 8 June 2021
  • Every era, too, brings its own social and political pressures, especially in the hothouse of academia.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Perhaps because of its strong reputation as one of the country's biggest sports towns, Chicago is a hothouse for bro culture.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Its end brings ripe peppers of all sorts, in various shades of orange and scarlet, sweet from a season in the sun and far more delicious than the hothouse types could ever hope to be.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023

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