How to Use hothead in a Sentence

hothead

noun

• Working on the project with such a hothead has been unpleasant.
• As a younger man, he was known as a hothead who talked back to cops.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2020
• One day, a fella is an extremist or a hothead on the left.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Mar. 2023
• One of football's hotheads, the 33-year-old has amassed no less than 24 red cards during his time in Spain's top-flight.
  — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Gutierrez — the hothead in the video, who has since been terminated — joined in.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• He isn’t known as a hothead, and his disciplinary record is pretty clean.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Bickle has shown over the decades a tendency to be a hothead, and his antics can rub some spectators the wrong way.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2021
• So what comes next for our favorite hothead and her troubled romances?
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 May 2022
• The guy, Moran said, was relentless, and Moran had a reputation back then for being a bit of a hothead.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Lowry, once known as a hothead and a man who seemed destined to take a desultory path through the NBA, became the team’s conscience in this series.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
• Orton was a bit of a hothead and got in a few in-game altercations during games in China.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 25 July 2021
• But embittered hothead Sean is in no mood for building bridges.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2019
• In the trio of all-time greats, he had always been cast as the hothead, the frothing ball of intensity that might explode at any moment.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 July 2022
• Adams’s supporters, for their part, called Jackson a hothead, a murderer, and a tyrant.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• Their traits are parceled out on a one-per-customer basis: Humphrey’s a patsy, King a worrier, Carmichael a hothead and Wallace a weasel.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Natasha smells something fishy and thinks Ivan is just desperate for a rose, but since Aaron is the hothead who cried wolf, pretty much everyone sides with Ivan.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• The scene is both frightening with a threat of violence that could erupt any minute (all the Don’s bodyguards are armed, including his hothead son) and rather funny.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• Lensky, who dies in the ensuing duel, is definitely a hothead in the person of Pavol Breslik.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
• Coltish, feral and passionately in love, Mr. Grigolo’s Mario is a true hothead.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2018
• The unintentional subtext seems to be: Bernardo was a Latino hothead, so his death doesn’t even matter to Maria all that much.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• Josh is also the most innocuous, non-threatening version of a hothead.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• Dunne was a good writer, a spirited gossip, an inspired raconteur, and a hothead with a chronic temper.
  — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• One coach went as far as comparing his antics to famous tennis hothead John McEnroe.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 25 Nov. 2019
• Sometimes being a dumb, violent hothead doesn’t pay off.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
• And, for another first, her hothead temper and short fuse actually come in handy in dispatching yaoguai.
  — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2017
• Bob Corker is known around Washington as a sensible pragmatist, not a thin-skinned hothead.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
• Season 1 finds hothead team captain Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), once a powerhouse, past his prime and too defined by his past to imagine life after football.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 19 July 2021
• War on the Korean peninsula or a nuclear exchange between two hotheads could stop trade in a hurry.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 9 Aug. 2017
• Prosecutors portrayed him as a hothead who didn't like trespassers.
  — Ed White, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024