How to Use white-hot in a Sentence

white-hot

adjective
  • Which pisses me off, even through my white-hot shame.
    — Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The stone, a little white-hot comet, flew in a tight, mean line across the expanse.
    — Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • That thing — that white-hot moment for rock — was never the same in that way again.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But by the time ’28 rolls around, this is gonna be the white-hot top issue.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Inviting that in brought with it a white-hot rage, and a deep sense of clarity.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Jin’s crescendo of bitterness had reached its peak and found a white-hot fury.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • The air was thick with steam, rolling in waves from a pile of white-hot stones below the wooden floorboards.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Rest assured, the desert set literally felt white-hot that day.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Throw it on over a beige bikini with some sandals for a white-hot look that stuns on a sweltering day.
    — Rana Good, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • The expression on the face of a near-naked person who has just been handed a white-hot stovepipe.
    — Patrick F. McManus, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The white-hot hiring environment of a couple of years ago is long gone.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
  • When one or none is missing, the Avs are 11-4-0 since the white-hot start.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At the center of this low-budget indie was a white-hot performance.
    — Wash Westmoreland, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics and the white-hot spotlight that comes with it.
    — CBS News, 30 June 2024
  • Ahsoka stakes her claim to her own series with a dazzling display of white-hot swordplay.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2023
  • By the third day, the two cores combined into a single white-hot core—the makings of a future planet.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Gomez accentuated the dress with a pair of white-hot, pointed-toe heels with a strap around the ankle.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But Kendrick did not have to straddle a white-hot rivalry like Velazquez.
    — Matt Baker, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • To the queen, her face an increasingly strained mask for her white-hot fury, they may as well have been cast into the wilderness.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Jeremy Allen White’s stylist is taking fans behind the scenes of his white-hot awards season style!
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • If the idea was to bring the temperature down to something less white-hot, its mission was accomplished.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Could the solution to soaring resale prices be … higher ticket prices? To deal with white-hot demand, artists can try to play more shows at the biggest venues.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Could the solution to soaring resale prices be … higher ticket prices? To deal with white-hot demand, artists can try to play more shows at the biggest venues.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 12 Feb. 2025
  • What is probably not soon returning, regardless, is the white-hot activism of the last decade.
    — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • But the white-hot rage of the MAGA base can’t be comfortable to bear.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
  • When they are dropped, white-hot metal fragments can fly out in all directions, tearing through their surroundings.
    — Allegra Goodwin and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The movie turned her into an international icon, as well as putting Saint-Tropez on the white-hot map.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Some even seek out white-hot foods, excited to challenge their digestion to the most searing peppers on the planet.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Grab a table at Elaine’s, order a glass of Dom Pérignon, and enjoy the white-hot spotlight.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
  • This was to be a final rendering of judgment on the young but still green Spurs, facing the white-hot Knicks.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 June 2026

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