grow hot

Example Sentences

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You lie on a towel, grow hot, dip in the ocean to cool down, get out, reheat yourself, dip, cool down, repeat.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Overhead lines naturally grow hot as they carry current, and they rely on the air to cool off.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

So when the long metal tube in which we are travelling begins to bob and buck, no wonder our hearts beat a little faster, our palms grow hot and sticky.

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2016

Jairo felt his face grow hot and then he saw someone who looked official pointing in his direction.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ever and anon the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from chasms in its sides.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien