How to Use hot button in a Sentence

hot button

noun

• The film is considered very controversial for all the hot buttons it pushes.
• Benton said this may be the next hot button issue the board faces.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• The Hopkins police force is a hot button issue in the city and has been so for the past few years.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
• Depending on the hot button issue, the banning of books can come from the right or the left.
  — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• It's become a hot button issue in states across the country.
  — ABC News, 20 June 2021
• Eggs and housing costs have been some of the inflationary hot buttons around the nation for the past year or so.
  — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• Placing a shelter in Venice has been a hot button issue for years.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• The 14-time Grammy winner’s air travel have been a hot button issue as of late.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Keeping up with the local teams and the hot button issues of the Bay Area is mandatory for her radio gig.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2021
• The same was true for another hot button case about Ohio's method for purging voters from its rolls.
  — CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
• After all, many of us tend to have strong opinions on any number of hot button topics from world hunger and healthcare to climate change.
  — Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• On Survivor, there’s no more hot button issue than food hoarding.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• The question of what to do with the property has become a political hot button.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
• The best thing to do if technoference is a hot button issue in your relationship?
  — Nikki Campo, SELF, 3 May 2022
• Steve Sarkisian discovered what a hot button issue the school song can be in his second season at Texas.
  — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Coming up, Kamala Harris moves to the middle on some hot button issues.
  — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024
• While the film is not a right-wing versus left-wing doc, guns, religion and the first amendment – all hot button political issues — are part of the film.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
• He's seen as vulnerable this year because the race is centered on the hot button issue of housing.
  — OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
• Border issues are, and will continue to be, a hot button topic leading up to the 2024 elections.
  — Angel Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Rising rents appear to be a hotter button for single women than for men.
  — Kenneth R. Harney, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
• Back in the conference room, Jay brings the discussion around to a hot button issue: reparations.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2020
• San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is never one to shy away from touching on hot button issues and giving his own hot take about the state of the country.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 July 2022
• Months after the spy balloon incident, China's efforts to surveil the U.S. are still a hot button issue.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 16 June 2023
• Hockey has become a hot button issue in Connecticut, and in all of New England.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• What’s your advice for discussing a hot button issue with someone who clearly sees the world through a lens that’s different from yours?
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The last panel addressed one of the industry’s hot button topics, at least since the beginning of the pandemic: safety and health.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2020
• For driver advocates, sick pay has been the hot button labor issue of the pandemic.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 7 June 2020
• Equal pay remains the hot button issue in women's soccer, with the U.S. women's national team leading the charge.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• For his part, Alex is frustrated that something as simple as trying to play sports with his peers has become such a hot button issue.
  — Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Assessment arrives at a time when reproduction rights is a hot button issue.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024