How to Use hotbed in a Sentence

hotbed

noun

• The Cougars are stationed some 1,200 miles away from the hotbed of the conference.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• Beyond the danger of the app itself, the platform is a hotbed of scams.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• This was the 1980s, when Washington was a hotbed for the sale of crack cocaine.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
• Indeed, they were written in the hotbed of Berlin, where Einstein lived at the time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Alabama was a little bit more of a hotbed for this stuff back in the summer.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2020
• That’s why Texas is such a hotbed in almost every race.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 30 May 2022
• The Boston area was an early hotbed of the pandemic in the United States.
  — Tom Sequist, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022
• For all its flaws and quirks, Roblox is a hotbed of creativity.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
• This summer doesn’t have a great free agent class and the Pacers haven’t exactly been a hotbed for free agents.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Feb. 2022
• Plenty of research confirms that the kitchen sink is a hotbed of microbes.
  — Susannah Herrada, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• Sitake and Hill have both talked about the importance of recruiting the state of Texas, the hotbed of Big 12 recruiting.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Doyle has taken no pleasure in fighting against football in this hotbed of the sport.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• New York had been a hotbed for the virus early in the year but had seemed to have gotten it largely under control.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2020
• Chicago has been a hotbed of craft brewing for more than a decade, but a funny thing has happened along the way: the suburbs.
  — Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• The region has long been a hotbed for trafficking drugs, guns and people.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
• Poverty and fury have made the camp a hotbed of militancy.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• And Cecina is a hotbed for cinque e cinque, a starch-on-starch sandwich stuffed with a chickpea flatbread.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2021
• Houston, Dallas, and maybe a little bit Austin are like the real hotbeds.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• The growth, the great weather, the coaching have all made Arizona a hotbed for colleges from all over the country to find top players,'' Obert said.
  — Chris Coppola, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
• Boston in the mid 1800s was a hotbed of anti-slavery activism.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• The Peach State will be the hotbed for politics over the next month and a half, with the Senate majority hanging in the balance.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 23 Nov. 2020
• That's why the Southwestern U.S. is such a hotbed of pepper growing.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
• Storing knives in wood blocks is more likely to dull your knives, and those knife blocks could also be a hotbed for yeast, mold and other germs.
  — Kristy Alpert, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2022
• Charlottesville in the early 1990s was a cheap, freewheeling town to be young, broke, and arty, so WTJU was a hotbed of music geeks.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Haţeg Basin has been a hotbed for dinosaur discoveries.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• When storms or bad weather kept the ships in port, Siglufjörður became a hotbed of activity.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• The game with the North Carolina Courage will mark the return of women’s professional soccer to an area that has long been a hotbed of the sport.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• California is a hotbed for cactus —35 species call the state home — and the coastal prickly pear is one of the most common in the Los Angeles area.
  — Aliese Willard Muhonen, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• The festivities take a dark turn when a corpse surfaces on the beach, transforming the lavish affair into a hotbed of suspicion.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• Zoom in: The growth has made Atlanta a hotbed for the industry, but the data centers' fortress-like size and form conflict with using space for housing, parks and other active uses.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024