hot air

Example Sentences

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When AFP visited, explosions rang repeatedly through the burning hot air, as blasts split stone for mining.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

If some of the sudden national attention can feel like hot air, the local fight over these issues is about to get very real.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

A hot air balloon had to make an emergency landing in the backyard of a Temecula home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

A strong, slow-moving high-pressure system - often called a heat dome - is trapping hot air over the region, pushing temperatures 20–30F above normal in parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Much of the talk about the three-dimensional structure of proteins and nucleic acids was hot air.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson