How to Use torrid in a Sentence

torrid

adjective
  • The team had a torrid time trying to score.
  • As if to sum up the torrid run.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Richard and Ellis had a torrid affair back in the day.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And the pace of bond issuance so far this year, , has been double that of last year’s torrid pace.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 17 June 2020
  • Tingley, meanwhile, is off a torrid start.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Still, such a torrid start to the season was a pleasant surprise.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Fred, meanwhile, engages in a torrid and high-toned affair of his own.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Vinnie Pasquantino is on a torrid pace this week.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Here are nine key stats from the Hurricanes’ torrid start.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Clark, now in her third season with the Fever, has gotten off to a torrid start.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • Rayan gave Mykolenko a torrid time, beating him with trickery, pace and brute force.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • One torrid slugger cannot carry it every night.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2026
  • Ramirez has returned to his All-Star form with a torrid streak over the past two months.
    — Tom Withers, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Yet the industry upon which all this is built has been having a torrid time of late.
    — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The Dodgers have managed a torrid start to the season while rarely feeling whole.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Goodman continued his torrid streak at the plate.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The torrid summers in the South have become even more torrid.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • No one is going to debate that Matthews’ torrid pace has slowed in the last two seasons.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Over a grinding dance beat, Smith sings about a torrid affair taking place in a garage.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the five games leading up to that torrid streak, Knecht totaled 39 points.
    — Al Lesar, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
  • That's after a torrid stretch that's seen the greenback climb in four of the last five sessions—a bad sign for big-cap stocks.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 June 2021
  • Pages got his revenge in the third while continuing his torrid pace to start the season.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Jacob Melton enters the game on a torrid streak, with nine hits in his last 13 at-bats.
    — oregonlive, 13 May 2022
  • Carraway was on a torrid pace then with 34 points in six games including a hat trick in all of those games.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Dreams The Bottom Line A torrid pas de deux that leaves scars.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Ross Colton continued his torrid start to the season and put the Avs on the board first.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Then there is Stanford's Bryce Love, who is on a torrid pace through seven games.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Miller continued his torrid play, tossing in a game-best 26 points to go with eight rebounds.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Feb. 2026
  • After a torrid spring, Luis Matos didn’t have to toil at Triple-A for long.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Keely Williams gets on base Texas State's lead-off hitter is off to a torrid start to the season.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026

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