hot air

Example Sentences

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When AFP visited, explosions rang repeatedly through the burning hot air, as blasts split stone for mining.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

If some of the sudden national attention can feel like hot air, the local fight over these issues is about to get very real.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

A hot air balloon had to make an emergency landing in the backyard of a Temecula home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

I felt the hot air of my breath on my face.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley