in hot water

Example Sentences

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This suggests that immersion in hot water may interfere with lice activity or where they lay their eggs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

However, that practice landed Venture Global in hot water after it kept contracted customers waiting for gas in 2022 from its Calcasieu Pass terminal, which was under construction in Louisiana at the time.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

One, which poked fun at Michael Jordan’s gambling, was featured in USA Today and got the team in hot water with the NBA.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

It wouldn’t be the last time that a regrettable decision about spilling on NBA players would land Jones in hot water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor