hothouse
Example Sentences
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Baton Rouge is a merciless hothouse that won’t accept anything short of national titles, but presumably he knows the madness he’s walking into.
One of the ongoing questions about Venus is whether it was once habitable and Earth-like but then transitioned to a thick, hothouse atmosphere, driven by volcanic activity.
From Washington Post
“I went back to living my life,” she said of her recent hiatus, identifying as “a hothouse flower, a delicate person and a massive introvert,” drained after a year-plus of promotion and touring for “Melodrama.”
From New York Times
The male characters are strikingly fragile or brutish, and Abbott uses ballet itself, that “misty pink hothouse,” to dramatize how women can both harm and glorify themselves through sex.
From Washington Post
“Then, in the hothouse environment of social media, it will be picked up with very little fact-checking, really catch fire and be reinforced.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
