How to Use hotheaded in a Sentence

hotheaded

adjective
  • He wrote a hotheaded letter.
  • Way too much time for the hotheaded Prescott to operate.
    cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The hotheaded naked ice borer now has its own Wikipedia page and appears on lists of the greatest hoaxes of all time.
    Paul Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2011
  • That is, until her hotheaded pimp Larry yanks her from her barstool and pushes her onto the street.
    Karmen Fox, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Montgomery played the hotheaded older brother of Max (Sadie Sink).
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Verstappen, who races for Red Bull-Honda, is the hotheaded 24-year-old pretender trying to stop him.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Rei, hotheaded and ever ready to speak her mind, and Ami, shyer and more interior.
    New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Four former Green Berets who served with Goudreau called him a gifted warfighter who could be both charismatic and hotheaded.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
  • Joe questions his own hotheaded, shoot-from-the-hip nature, especially when age gets in the way of taking action.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • Friday Night Lights role, while Thurman seems to be having a blast adopting a thick accent and a syrupy smile to purr sweet nothings into her hotheaded founder’s ear.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022
  • One of them was Andrew Jackson, a pugnacious populist and something of a hotheaded role model for Trump.
    Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The rest of the bistro staff — a hotheaded grill chef, a slacker dishwasher, an aspiring actress, an ebullient Scotsman, an overwhelmed French prep cook and many more — vividly add to the whirl and swirl.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Refusing to give up, two hotheaded rivals try to pull Tayshia into the fray right before the rose ceremony.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Ventura's young hotheaded attitude versus Ryan's old-school grit was a match made in heaven for fans.
    Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
  • As anyone who’s ever worked at a startup will tell you, having a young, hotheaded male founder at the helm making people’s lives occasionally hellish is...kind of the norm.
    Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, 24 Mar. 2020
  • This would clear up his line of succession (since this era had never before seen a ruling Queen on the Iron Throne) and also take his hotheaded and unpredictable brother, Daemon, out of the mix.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Monty, Bryce, and Alex are all leaving when the Hillcrest student tries to say goodbye the closeted, hotheaded football player and gets beaten — hence the need for blackmail.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The cold temperatures don’t do much to cool the hotheaded detectives as tensions start to boil between Foster and Reis’ characters.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The chaotic early months of the campaign gave him a reputation in some parts of the Obama administration as reckless and hotheaded.
    Mark Landler and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • Knuckles originated as Sonic’s nemesis in 1994, the hotheaded powerhouse to Sonic’s go-with-the-flow speed.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The site is chock full of emotional letters that present Maimaron as a caring and patient educator, in stark contrast to the crude and hotheaded coach described by several players.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • After all, such talk can feed into an image of the WGA’s leadership as hotheaded and eager to shut down Hollywood — something union stalwarts say is simply false.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Prince Harry paints his brother as hotheaded and vindictive.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Adora is strong, tough, hotheaded, and a fish out of water in the world of princess luxury and palace etiquette, which are traits highly reminiscent of the title character in The Legend of Korra.
    Samantha Nelson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • He was vaguely understood in law school to be conservative but not one of the more flagrant, well-known, hotheaded conservatives on campus.
    Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The Caps avoided any hotheaded retaliation and concentrated on a gritty effort that was enough to even the series.
    Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com, 31 May 2018
  • The numbing routine of the hospital is disrupted when a hotheaded, seriously injured young man bursts in.
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The title character is Lady Violet, who poses as a garden girl while putting some distance between herself and her hotheaded lover, Count Belfiore.
    Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Despite his painful and debilitating condition, he’s made the chieftain of Clan MacKenzie—much to the chagrin of his hotheaded younger brother, Dougal, who was vying for the position himself.
    Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 16 June 2023
  • The Irishman was famous for his hotheaded attitude - mostly directed to those at Arsenal.
    SI.com, 13 Oct. 2017

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