HEAT in a Sentence

Learn HEAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

358 example sentences for HEAT, such as:

1. The heat made him feel faint.
2. The fire gave out a fierce heat.
3. I'll heat it up in the microwave.
4. Public feeling was at fever heat.
5. The sun sends out light and heat.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heat
 n.  the condition or quality of being hot
 v.  make hot or hotter
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Already summer was in the air, the first hint of Georgia summer when the high tide of spring gives way reluctantly before a fiercer heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Palmetto fans were wagging more slowly, and several gentlemen were nodding from the heat and overloaded stomachs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Men lay down to die, and the last sight that met their puzzled eyes was the rails shining in the merciless sun, heat shimmering along them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Public feeling was at fever heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  Then, on a July afternoon of steaming heat, Atlanta had its wish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, panting weight to tired, anxious hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  She hurried out of the house and into the heat of the sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  It was blindingly, glaring hot and as she hurried down Peachtree Street her temples began to throb from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  The smell of sweat, of blood, of unwashed bodies, of excrement rose up in waves of blistering heat until the fetid stench almost nauseated her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
16  The heat made him feel faint.
17  Take the milk off the heat before it boils over.
18  I'll heat it up in the microwave.
19  They work on a principle of heat absorption.
20  The burning foam generates such heat that other items in the room can ignite spontaneously.
21  The fire gave out a fierce heat.
22  The athletes are acclimatising to the heat by staying in Monte Carlo.
23  The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
24  Cook the sauce over a medium heat until it thickens.
25  It brings some relief from the merciless summer heat.
26  Wood is a poor conductor of heat.
27  The sun sends out light and heat.
28  The sun's heat vaporizes the water of the ocean.
29  This new boiler generates more heat than the old one.
30  This fire doesn't give out much heat.