How To Use Red-hot In A Sentence
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Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
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a red-hot mama
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With a red-hot prong at his hurdies to prog him on,
Krindlesyke
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Then, while still contracting, the star cools through yellow and red-hot, and the protyle condenses into progressively heavier elements.
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Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
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It isn't easy being a red-hot lover these days, but take heart, help is at hand for those with a penchant for penning a love poem.
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If only they wouldn't turn snapdragons into antirrhinums, love-lies-bleeding into amaranthus, and red-hot-pokers into kniphofias ....
Try Anything Twice
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I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily.
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The arrangement of pendulous petal groups has a similar appearance to that of the red-hot poker or some aloe flowers.
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The Irish are red-hot favourites after winning their first three matches while Wales are fighting to avoid the wooden spoon after losing to Italy, Scotland and England.
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That performance elevated him to red-hot favouritism for the hurdling crown.
The Sun
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We can make transport an interesting, attractive, galvanising, inspiring, or perhaps red-hot issue, but buses, trams and even Freudian trains are not and never will be sexy.
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Back in 1971, the mercurial Alex Murphy pulled off a minor miracle when unfancied Leigh toppled red-hot favourites Leeds to win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
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There's nothing like gaining a reputation as a red-hot creative shop for turning up the pressure in a business where you're only as good as your last ad.
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But the great pressure to which the sheets are subjected makes the alloy very brittle, so that it has to be softened or "annealed," as it is called, by being heated red-hot in very large ovens before each re-rolling.
The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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Bundaberg will also be Everigham's first event of the year and after a sensational finish to last year's tour he is expected be one of the red-hot favourites for the 2004 Australian Title.
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a red-hot line drive
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It came with a red-hot sauce and two pieces of meat which looked like knee cartilage but turned out to be school rubbers.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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He looks unlikely to grab the prize as Anthony Hutton is the red-hot favourite and is now odds-on to win at 4-5.
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Several weekends ago on Governors Island, well over a thousand people were dancing to a 12-piece orchestra that played mostly foxtrots, shifting from red-hot stomps by Fletcher Henderson to smooth two-beat show tunes by George Gershwin.
A Retro Jazz Movement With a Good Dance Beat
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Today, he is the red-hot favourite to win the classic 12 km race for the third year.
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Alternatively, you can create a similar effect by grilling the aubergine slices dry, then using a red-hot skewer to mark scorch lines before drizzling with oil.
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Questioned about the suggestion Day had lusted after her, MacGregor replied: ‘I can't put Robin in the category of red-hot lovers.’
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Red-hot coals provide uniform heat for quite some time and can be easily rekindled whenever needed.
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The red-hot temperatures are expected to send demand for water soaring.
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From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite.
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‘Promise me you'll at least hear me out before you decide that you don't believe me,’ I said quietly, staring into the red-hot flames of the fire.
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She stared into the depths of the fire and saw nothing but the curling tongues wrapped around red-hot coal.
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Winner of three of his four races, he has made significant strides this season, his latest success coming in a red-hot handicap at Newmarket last month.
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Without a word to anyone, she calmly went indoors, picked up a red-hot iron and cauterized the wound herself.
Five Best: John Matteson
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She was kneeling down in the chimney-corner, before two pieces of turf laid together with the heather inwards, blowing at the red-hot ashes with her breath till the turves flamed.
Wessex Tales
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One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
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With the help of professionals we are inviting the public to walk over a 20 ft path of red-hot coals.
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Show-stopping Irish dance leads into passionate flamenco and red-hot salsa routines.
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Red-hot rage may seem in order when the country's values have been trampled upon by a government with a dubious claim to legitimacy.
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This is the best season in a long time for red-hot, four-handed piano duet albums.
Heavyweight Contenders, Connection
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Other refinements (rarely administered) were the tearing of the flesh of the condemned with red-hot pincers, the cutting off of hands, and the cutting out of tongues.
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Adam’s ears were perpetually red-hot, like someone who seems to have just come back from the barbershop, and he was a jiggler; a crossed leg often went flapping like a wing, and if a pencil happened to make its way into his hand, it would soon be put into service tapping out a rhythm that no one in the otherwise silent coffee shop or classroom wanted to hear.
Surrender, Dorothy
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The fire was a heap of gray ashes except for its red-hot center: the kyack was in gloom.
The Sky Line of Spruce
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He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron.
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And he has raised his game so much since then that he goes to Athens as world kilometre champion - and a red-hot favourite for gold.
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When nicotine vapor is passed through a red-hot tube, it yields essentially collidine, and, with this, some pyridine, picoline, lutidine, and gases such as hydrogen, marsh-gas, and ethylene.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
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Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
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Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze.
Fiancée
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At this, Quimby dropped the hat he held as if it had been red-hot, glanced at the chair whereon he had so lately distinguished himself, took up the tails of his coat one in each hand, revolved again, and then without a word darted from the room.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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To an astrophysicist, red-hot foods and red-hot lovers both leave room for improvement.
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The hosts, red-hot favourites to win the match at the start of play yesterday, were left to ponder if they had left their declaration too late.
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Walking down the road in those thin-soled sandals was close to walking over red-hot coal.
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In fact, the idea of listening to a bunch of pompous professionals congratulating themselves on their own erudition seems marginally less appealing than poking myself in the eye with a red-hot skewer.
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In our turf-fire environment, the unusual smells of coal slack and hooves burning when a red-hot shoe was fitted, although unpleasant, are nonetheless memorable.
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a red-hot speech
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The reporter had a red-hot story.
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In her little blue-gingham morning dress, out of which her neck flowered white and ever beautiful of nape, Lilly crumbled up her biscuit, eyes miserably down, the red-hot pricklings which invariably accompanied these scenes flashing over her and a crowding in her throat as if she must tear it open for language to make them understand.
Star-Dust
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Questioned about the suggestion Day had lusted after her, MacGregor replied: ‘I can't put Robin in the category of red-hot lovers.’
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red-hot information
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He held a wand of red-hot iron and invited the knight to enter.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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His bare feet really do touch the red-hot coals.
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Show-stopping Irish dance leads into passionate flamenco and red-hot salsa routines.
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He made each of his players run barefoot over red-hot coals.
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One must hold a red-hot fire iron to the weaker parts of one's soul.
The Broken God
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An igniter was inserted into the cylinder, heated to red-hot temperatures by supplying current.
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A red-hot molten mess shot through with glassy globules known as agglutinate, common on the moon but rare on Earth.
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Mess in the Spacecraft
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Laax is home to a red-hot freestyle scene, with acrobatic displays in the half-pipe every weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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The deeply incised DE/ED made with a red-hot nail was visible for anyone to see.
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Ordeal by fire required suspects (usually freemen) to carry hot irons, or to walk blindfold and barefoot through red-hot ploughshares or over heated coals.
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It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter.
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Unlike our boys in Japan, Steve is the red-hot favourite to win both the first round downhill race in Fort William and the World Cup itself.
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In the main rooms red-hot radiators were left exposed.
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But he admitted this demolition of the red-hot favourites topped them all.
The Sun
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Giardina warns that pain or swelling accompanied by a red-hot feeling or tenderness along the vein could be a serious condition called thrombophlebitis, which occurs when a blood clot causes swelling, most often in the legs.
Lead Stories from AOL
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In the main rooms red-hot radiators were left exposed.
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Four years ago she went to Athens as red-hot favourite for the 1500m, the fastest in the field by, well, not a mile, but a long streak - only to break down with injury in the qualifying rounds.
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Part of the reason may have been that Lyor’s instincts and maneuvering proved spot-on: while the other PolyGram labels foundered, Def Jam had a red-hot Christmas.
Fortune’s Fool
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In retaliation, the bewildered girl says, one of her small hands was burned on a red-hot stove.
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Undercliffe are the holders and red-hot favourites.
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It is only necessary to remark, that the orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was effected by dropping "a live coal" ( "_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into the brandy.
Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850
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Once come the catchpoll to mine house, -- I wis not on what business, for, poor man! he tarried not to tell me when I come at him with the red-hot poker.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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It was like a red-hot fire spreading through her.
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The matchup: Red-hot Soderling will try to make the clay play like a hardcourt by taking the ball early and staying aggressive.
Federer enters men's semifinals near elusive French Open title
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It is only necessary to remark, that the orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was effected by dropping "a live coal" ( "_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into the brandy.
Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850
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Sparks flew out from underneath, showering the road with red-hot metallic pieces.
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Helium, like argon, is a gas, sparingly soluble in water, withstanding the action of oxygen in presence of caustic soda, under the influence of the electric discharge, as well as of red-hot magnesium.
Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture
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Manchester United, now six points clear, are obviously red-hot favourites for the title.
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At the outset, the girl obstinately prevaricated, but when she eventually heard that lady Feng intended to take a red-hot branding-iron and burn her mouth with, she at last sobbingly spoke out.
Hung Lou Meng
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They show animal claws scratching across concrete, red-hot rusty wires glowing orange in the dark, and bloodied knives arranged along the body at the sites of pain.
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Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes.
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The omelette is then fried in the usual way; but it is usually served without doubling it up, sugar being grated over the upper side after it is put in the dish, which is then set in front of the fire for a few minutes, or the omelette is browned by holding over it a flat red-hot iron called a salamander.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Imagine there's a religion that believes in burning children with a red-hot iron.
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All my heart, all my affection, all my admiration, went out spontaneously to this frisky little forked black thing, this compact and compressed incarnation of energy and force and promptness and celerity and confidence, this smart, smily, engaging, shiney-eyed little devil, feruled on his upper end by a gleaming fire-coal of a fez with a red-hot tassel dangling from it.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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Mozart is the dominant composer at the festival, which also has traditional and jazz aspects, including the red-hot tangos of Astor Piazzola.
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The red-hot favourite got in a real fluster on his way down to the start and Philip Robinson had to wrestle the reins to keep him under control.
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When the Ryder Cup was originally scheduled for last September, the Americans were red-hot favourites with even the most optimistic European golf fan.
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A single pot balanced on the mecha-stove, the two glowing iron coils red-hot beneath it.
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While the days are long gone when a headkeeper's game book might show 3000 brace of grouse from a day's shooting and the loaders' hands would be singed from handling red-hot guns, game hunting has attracted growing opposition.
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A seaman in the US Navy in World War II ran barefoot across the red-hot deck of a burning ship to save a fellow sailor's life.
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It reached the ears of a certain pious man that there abode in such a town a blacksmith, who could put his hand into the fire and pull out the iron red-hot, without the flames doing him aught of hurt. 482
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The campaign will include recipes which, it is claimed, can turn the coldest of fish into red-hot lovers.
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The big news story of the Athens Olympics was Paula Radcliffe, Britian's red-hot marathon gold-medal favourite, failing to finish.
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I observed those flat, evil faces sweeping down on us behind their glittering lance-heads and kampilans, and decided they weren't open to discussion; there was nothing for it but to sit and blaze away in panic - and then a red-hot pain shot through my left ribs, and I looked down bewildered to see a sumpitan shaft in my side.
Flashman's Lady
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Both are in red-hot form already this season.
The Sun
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He pulled the metal out of the fire, examining the red-hot tip, then put it back in.
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Behind the man Drillian could see a couple of the smiths hammering red-hot chunks of metal.
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The titles are stacking up like the poker chips of a red-hot card shark.
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Master's face was, fust, red-hot; next, chawk-white: and then sky-blew.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
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Madame could not have chosen better foils for her own voluptuous style than the three women, all angles -- looking as she always did, as though she had been visiting Vulcan, and feeding on the red-hot coals beneath his hammer, while quenching her thirst from a cantharus given her by the hand of Bacchus himself.
A Heart-Song of To-day
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The boy stood before him in ardent expectation, like a piece of red-hot iron awaiting the stroke of the hammer to mould it into shape, and every word had the power to either make or mar him.
The Mother
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And suppose some crane-necked general to go speeding by on a tall charger, spurring the destiny of nations, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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There was no disgrace in their defeat by a Leigh team who will be red-hot favourites going into the play-offs.
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They all know the perils of finishing second and are red-hot.
The Sun
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Tryal of my own, That having sometimes distilled some Woods, as particularly Box, whilst our _Caput mortuum_ remain'd in the Retort, it continued black like Charcoal, though the Retort were Earthen, and kept red-hot in a vehement Fire; but as soon as ever it was brought out of the candent Vessel into the open Air, the burning Coals did hastily degenerate or fall asunder, without the Assistance of any new
The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
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The glow comes from the continuous stream of red-hot iron that pours from the bottom of the furnace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gloved workers, their eyes shaded, manhandle glowing, red-hot bars of old iron from a furnace into a rolling mill.
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One of the last great red-hot liberals addressed the Democratic convention Tuesday, but he was something of an afterthought.
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The poker glowed red-hot in the fire.
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To decorate: Gather royal icing, cake-decorating sugar, jimmies, colored sprinkles, miniature chocolate chips, and/or red-hot candies.
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The other is the Southeast Asian or Chinese cinnamon, often called cassia, which is typically thick and hard, forming a double spiral, darker in color and much stronger in flavor, bitter and somewhat harsh and burning, as in the American “red-hot” candy.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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I first read about 'nduja - a red-hot Italian meat paste that's pronounced "en-DOO-ya" - in
Married ...with dinner
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Some swallow ladles of boiling oil and then spit the scalding liquid onto their captive audience; others insert red-hot implements from the fire into their mouths.
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Every story here grabs a red-hot trope or conceit and runs for the borders of irreality with it.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The USA are red-hot favourites to take back the cup after three successive defeats.
The Sun
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Master’s face was, fust, red-hot; next, chawk-white: and then sky-blew.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
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A red-hot shower of burning debris rained down on him.
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The red-hot jazz saxophonist Bhumibol and his beautiful Queen Sirikit, who celebrated their golden jubilee on May 5, 2000, continue to reign and enjoy the respect and devotion of the Thai people.
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Whether he gets to face Shane Warne at any other time during the Ashes series remains to be seen, but he should be a red-hot favourite to go to India in the winter.
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Red-hot cannon-balls, and shrapnel, langrage, chain-shot, and Greek-fire — these and the like were all fair warfare, and France might use them freely.
Springhaven
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Starting the opening round at Fort William as red-hot favourite, a momentary lapse of concentration saw Peat sailing over the handlebars on a one-way ticket to doubts and disillusionment.
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Suppose there was a great, wide steel grate here, and a great glowing fire -- a _glowing_ fire -- with beds of red-hot coal and lots of little dancing, flickering flames.
Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's
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Had he seen in his dreams an infernal bull bearing a matador empaled upon his horns of red-hot steel?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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White wedding gowns are still red-hot, but more adventurous brides are bringing in more colour to their gowns, wearing dresses with a tan or beige or pink hue.
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Then, while still contracting, the star cools through yellow and red-hot, and the protyle condenses into progressively heavier elements.
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A surge of passion could turn you into a red-hot lover but you must not allow it to make you foolishly impulsive.
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Inside, red-hot stones are sprinkled with botanicals and water, creating an aromatherapeutic steam.
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A beam of red-hot light seared past her, missing by mere inches.
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The slight drop in distance won't be a problem and he can take this red-hot contest.
The Sun
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Tizzy placed her arms round her brother's neck and clung tightly while he played the restive steed, and raised Cook's ire to red-hot point by purposely kicking one of the Windsor chairs, making it scroop on the beautifully-white floor of the front kitchen, and making the queen of the domain rush out at him, looking red-eyed and ferocious, for the onion-juice had affected her.
Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
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Her abdomen was a sea of agony, flames of red-hot pain searing out from the convulsed muscles.
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Shall Typho vent, with slingstone-showers red-hot,
Prometheus Bound
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He knew that if the wasp had chosen either of them, the chosen one would have felt a stabbing thing like a red-hot sword penetrate to his vitals.
The Raid on the Termites
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The England men's Ashes success has ensured that the red-hot favourite for the Sports Personality of the Year is a man.
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He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron.
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Then they turned him into a swan, but all was in vain, till at last he was turned into a red-hot sword, and this she cast into a well of water and then he turned back into a mother-naked man.
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The race was won by the red-hot favourite.
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My aunt used to heat a long steel poker in the fire until it was red-hot and put it right down the hollow stem to ripen them.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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The midge, again, or punkie, or "no-see-'um," just as you please, swarms down upon you suddenly and with commendable vigour, so that you feel as though red-hot pepper were being sprinkled on your bare skin; and his invisibility and intangibility are such that you can never tell whether you have killed him or not; but he doesn't last long, and dope routs him totally.
The Forest
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His love for Eloise had been unhealthy, red-hot, bound to burn itself out sooner or later.
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In fact, there's only one other thing that's certain about this red-hot news: Somewhere Kristoff St. John is doing backflips!
Debbi Morgan Joins The Young and the Restless
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Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes.
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Why is it possible for bare feet to touch red-hot coals without getting burned?
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This was something of a floorer; I felt myself grow red-hot.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
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Depending on the type of coach and chassis, they would have narrowly avoided being minced by a propshaft turning at thousands of revolutions a minute or burned by red-hot exhaust pipes.
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They have come from behind before but Arsenal are the red-hot favourites.
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The tech-services industry has been whipsawed as the red-hot demand of the late 1990s turned into the deep freeze of the past few years.
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But they are red-hot favourites.
The Sun
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Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker.
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Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
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A charcoal brazier shimmered the air where three soldering irons were being heated in the red-hot coals.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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It caused pressure to build up in an economiser and the men who were working below were showered with red-hot steam on December 7, 1997.
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Chester defeated the Giants three times out of four last season and start red-hot favourites to make it four out five.
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Carlyle, like Hunt, discovered _intensity_ to be the prevailing character of Dante's genius, emblemed by the pinnacle of the city of Dis; that "red-hot cone of iron glowing through the dim immensity of gloom.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite.
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Why is it possible for bare feet to touch red-hot coals without getting burned?
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As darkness descended, the increasingly restless audience, now numbering over a thousand, took up their positions around the cordoned-off red-hot coals, spread in a circle on the village square.
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It's a red-hot cabrio ready for the 'heatwave'.
The Sun
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City are red-hot favourites to be crowned champions today.
The Sun
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Collar's taunting of XENON appears to have heated up the debate over DAMA's claim to unprecedented red-hot temperatures.
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As to this nonpareil of lovely flesh and blood, her name was Lucy Mainspring, the daughter of a horologer, sir, -- a watchmaker -- _vulgo_ so called -- and though fattish, she was very fair -- fair! by Jupiter, (craving your honour's pardon for swearing,) she fairly made me give all other thoughts the cut, and twisted the passions of my heart with the red-hot torturing irons of love.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828
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Higher interest rates could cool the red-hot housing market in some parts of the world, Rajan said.
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The common name red-hot cat-tail describes the fluffy, maroon-red, droopy spikes that hang from the plant throughout summer.
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Giovanni Vigo (c. 1460-1520), surgeon-in-ordinary to Pope Julius II, gunshot wounds were classified as contused, burned, and poisoned, and the last-named, on the supposition that all gunshot wounds were poisoned by powder, were cauterized with red-hot iron or hot oil.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The United States will be red-hot favourites to successfully defend their gold medal in Athens as they call on a who's who of the best in the game.
