hot house

Example Sentences

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Would the sudden and glorious verdancy of television soon by clipped into submission by cryptic algorithms and shoved into an entrance-fee-demanding hot house where myriad species competed to the death for air and sun?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

A Scottish horticulturist looking after a palm tree, growing for more than two centuries, says he can't bear to watch it being chopped down to make way for hot house renovations.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021

In the hot house world where no climate actions are taken, profitability would slump 40 percent and probability of default would be 6 percent higher.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021

In a worst-case "hot house world" scenario developing countries including Malaysia, South Africa, Mexico and even wealthier economies such as Italy may default on debt by 2050.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2021

Gaspar was, of course, delighted with this offer but the chief’s sister was already tired of the hot house and had cast longing glances through the small window toward the barn in the rear.

From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Raymond, Evelyn