baking hot

Example Sentences

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After trying to move the device from "the baking hot sun", he concluded the heavy device "might be quite dangerous" and rang the police.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

The clearest thing is that it is baking hot — and this is close to winter.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022

Temperatures were expected to hit 37 Celsius in the southwest on Sunday before the baking hot air spreads north early in the week.

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2022

It was July in New York, baking hot, and we were in the corridor with a microphone singing: “So here it is merry Christmas.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2018

Those prison ships were terrible places—filthy and baking hot in summer and freezing in winter and of course nothing but slop to eat.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier