boiling

Example Sentences

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It’s almost like we’re seeing interpersonal deliberations that usually go on behind the curtain boiling over into public talks, which is extraordinarily unusual.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

It’s far easier to sit in the boiling waters of despair until the heat becomes tolerable than it is to try to alter the temperature all on our own.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

By that point, the 25-year-old and her partner had been living without heating for two weeks in Kyiv, boiling water over a candle and dressing themselves—and their dogs—in layers of clothes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Bangladesh launched fuel rationing on Sunday as the war in the Middle East deepened an energy crunch, creating long queues at filling stations and boiling over into anger.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

She cleaned it as well as she could with Uncle Kufa’s broken knife and soon had it boiling over a crackling fire.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer