How to Use hotheaded in a Sentence
hotheaded
adjective- He wrote a hotheaded letter.
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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 -
Still, Putin is unlikely to repeat the same mistake twice: allowing a private army led by a hotheaded sadist to take an outsized role in Russia’s security.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 -
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
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