How to Use hot potato in a Sentence

hot potato

noun

• He tried to avoid taking a strong stand on political hot potatoes like abortion.
• But rather than shoot the puck, the Wings played hot potato with it.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2021
• That’s how the hot potato ended up in the Supreme Court’s lap.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• This shock ball takes a twist on the classic game of hot potato.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• Transfer hot potatoes and beans to a large bowl and toss in enough vinaigrette to coat.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• The group was left close enough to each other to play market-cap hot potato.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• The Pacers played hot potato with the ball after having as much as a 17-point lead.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2021
• The hot potato now is passed to Del Mar, Baffert’s racing home away from home.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Schaefer and Staley spent most of the past decade playing hot potato with the SEC coach of the year trophy.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2021
• James and Dwyane Wade tossing a hot potato was a delight.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Rod Rosenstein pointed Mueller to get rid of a hot potato.
  — Fox News, 14 Apr. 2018
• But the final portion of the evening, when Reggie’s last Q of the night gets passed around like a hot potato, is just so dumb and fun.
  — Vulture, 20 May 2022
• The painting was being passed around the criminal world like a hot potato, Brand told The Guardian.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• Lawmakers and the White House have long played a game of hot potato with the notion of what can become law.
  — Ashley Killough and Tal Kopan, CNN, 10 May 2018
• There is also a fiendishness that can lurk within the hot potato ploy too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• The Golden Globes telecast was something of a hot potato prior to this new deal.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
• The pair played hot potato until Jones gave it to Brian Hoyer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• No telling if this game of celebrity hot potato for our voting rights will make a difference in the end.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 7 May 2021
• Dropped Fremont like a hot potato to protect their core base in Detroit.
  — Levi Sumagaysay, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Remove the potatoes from the oven and, holding a hot potato with a dry towel, make a vertical slit across the top.
  — Cathy Barrow, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• On the snack front, the site provides everything from spicy butter hot potato chips to jerky and jellies.
  — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2023
• First baseman Rhys Hoskins — who often fields the position with the ease of kids playing a game of hot potato — could hit the trade market.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 7 Nov. 2022
• The historical approach has been to pass the risk off onto someone else like a game of hot potato.
  — Ziad Ismail, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Now, for the rest of the play, the family will play a particularly grisly game of hot potato.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2023
• Now, for the rest of the play, the family will play a particularly grisly game of hot potato.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
• Hamas seems to be trying to throw the hot potato into the lap of the Palestinian Authority.
  — Saud Abu Ramadan, Bloomberg.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Porsche and Tesla have been playing hot potato with the Nürburgring’s electric sedan lap record for a few years now.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2024
• Even before cases of covid-19 started to surge again, the slow supply of vaccines in Europe was a hot potato.
  — The Economist, 24 Mar. 2021
• The issue is a hot potato that gets passed between branches of the US government – Congress should fix this!
  — John D. Sutter, CNN, 30 June 2022
• How the painting ended up in the Florida home in the first place is still a mystery — but the FBI agent believes mobsters passed it on like a hot potato.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024