redhot

Example Sentences

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The flames began to subside, but dense black smoke still poured from the twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil.

From Time Magazine Archive

First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force.

From Time Magazine Archive

The little stove was roaring; it was redhot, and the chocolate in the tin sizzled and sputtered.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

You remember that first view he gets of the Hall of Dite: red pinnacle, redhot cone of iron glowing through the dim immensity of gloom;—so vivid, so distinct, visible at once and forever!

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

At the mention of the birthmark, Georgiana, as usual, shrank as if a redhot iron had touched her cheek.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel