hot-and-cold
Example Sentences
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PARIS—For nearly a decade, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have sparred and negotiated in a hot-and-cold relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Megan Fox is pulling back the curtain on two hot-and-cold relationships that have fueled gossip about her in recent years: the first, with rapper Machine Gun Kelly, and the second, with plastic surgery.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
In this hot-and-cold season, there were great moments.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2023
In the winter of 2013, China announced that the first trip abroad for its newly chosen leader China, Xi Jinping would be to Russia, a country with which China had long had a hot-and-cold relationship.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022
And the old hot-and-cold, happy, frightened, laughing, sobbing sensation would have me by the throat again.
From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna
