red-hot
Example Sentences
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That’s a notably poor performance for a company selling the sort of “picks and shovels” that are still in red-hot demand three years into the AI spending boom.
In my first fleeing step, I trod my bare foot right on that red-hot coal.
From Literature
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Half-filling Renn’s cooking skin with water, he hung it by the fire; then, using a split branch, he dropped in red-hot stones to heat it up, and added the plucked and jointed willow grouse.
From Literature
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A firefighter picking up hoses on Jan. 2 found crackling, red-hot coals in the dirt and warned colleagues that a more thorough mop-up was needed.
From Los Angeles Times
But no front of competition has mattered more than the red-hot contest for technical talent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.