How do you use the word "hot" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hot": It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car. It is very hot today.

Hot Meaning

/hɒt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjRelating to heat and conditions which produce it.

adjRelating to heat and conditions which produce it., Having or giving off a high temperature.

Sentence Examples

It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.

It is very hot today.

They'll need an adequate supply of hot water.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

white thermal violent

Antonyms:

cold nonviolent

CEFR Practice Quiz

The soup was so ____ that it burned my tongue when I tasted it.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Be careful when handling the stove, as the metal surface can become extremely ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß, heiss (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish het (“hot”), Faroese and Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Related to heat. Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…]." — 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

"“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)." — 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN:

"It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West." — 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

"The microphone was hot and the show was on the air." — 2004, Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose, page 213:

"So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately." — 2013, Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 52:

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