baking hot
Example Sentences
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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
The 33-year-old put on 69 with Lahiru Thirimanne before his century stand with Chandimal, which wore down England in a baking hot afternoon session.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2021
Its steel, concrete, and asphalt attract the sun’s warmth, and its thick bands of pollution trap it, depriving residents of natural cooling at night and leaving residents more vulnerable to the baking hot air.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2015
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
