How to Use hothouse in a Sentence

hothouse

1 of 2 noun

• Start with hothouse vine tomatoes, which have a lot of flavor.
  — oregonlive, 22 June 2021
• Most planets can’t be turned into an ice world and a hothouse at the same time.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
• Earth has been a snowball and a hothouse at different times in its past.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2020
• My tomato was the size of a thumbnail, smelled like a whole hothouse, and burned my lips with the first bite.
  — Sheyna Gifford, Time, 2 Apr. 2020
• More notably, this book has a swirling hothouse quality that’s new.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• The unit was a hothouse for some of the rising stars of the commodities business.
  — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Still, there were no polar ice caps in the hothouse world of the Mesozoic Era.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• At Dior, the set was a leafy hothouse, also evoking escapism.
  — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026
• So don’t enter our hothouse with your refined sugar or nuance!
  — Carrie McCrossen, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
• Theirs is an emotional hothouse straight out of the pages of Town & Country.
  — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• Or at the Jungle pool (one of six onboard), a hothouse-style haven with faux ferns and a waterfall wall.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2022
• And hothouse options, especially the little ones still attached to the vine, are juicy with a good taste.
  — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• If not, just use a mix of mini and English hothouse cucumbers, which are available year-round.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2019
• That might be the more appealing strategy in the hothouse of party primaries.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 June 2019
• But North Korea’s talent in the cybercrime field is grown in a hothouse.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Compared to the gnarly meats, the yellow noodles were hothouse flowers, soft and retreating.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• Beds of dill, borage, tarragon, shiso and chives, a pool house doubling as an orchid hothouse and ferns fill the spaces between.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
• Not enough has looked at the hothouse of bullying and peer pressure that today's teens and tweens face - pressure that could crumple many adults.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Look for artichokes, bok choy, carrots, green beans, new potatoes and (hothouse) tomatoes at the vegetable stands.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Yet his ego is a delicate hothouse flower, threatened by the slightest puff of criticism.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 5 July 2017
• Not all retreats are monastic, and seclusion can easily nourish a hothouse of gossip.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
• The group recall the hothouse atmosphere that produced some of their most beloved, enduring anthems.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022
• Some of this is the usual hothouse of sports talk—nothing big can happen in sports without someone trying to pooh-pooh and diminish it.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Garnish as one desires, perhaps with a juicy blackberry or a hothouse flower, something dewy and tremulous, to be sure.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• This just takes us deeper into a world dominated by oil and gas—the kind of hothouse in which Putinish despots thrive.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• The episode is like a hothouse of feeling with every line delivery, moment of eye contact, and glancing touch landing humid and heavy.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 July 2026
• Now the tomatoes are heirloom from hothouses, and unfortunately, my tomato slices were mushy.
  — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
• The documentary attempts to sketch out what that means for someone like Andrew, who was raised in a hothouse of dysfunction.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• Any such divide is unlikely to be neat, given how the field of AI ethics sprouted in a tech industry hothouse.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 8 June 2021
• Every era, too, brings its own social and political pressures, especially in the hothouse of academia.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026

hothouse

2 of 2 adjective

• Lower carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere then cooled the Earth, turning a hothouse planet into one with a more temperate climate, like the one enjoyed by life today.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
• Their careers were marked by the jockeying for power and position endemic to the hothouse world of the Parisian intelligentsia, as well as by shifting allegiances and fallings out.
  — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
• Also known as seedless, burpless, or hothouse cucumbers, English cucumbers are distinct from classic pickling or slicing cucumbers in a few ways.
  — Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2026
• Purpose Of The Plastic English cucumbers, sometimes called hothouse cucumbers or European cucumbers, have a long, narrow shape and a thin, edible skin.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2026
• The hothouse flowers of the salon—a nod to the city’s art nouveau Palmenhaus—were painstakingly painted by Viennese artist Marie Hartig, while the rooftop mural is by enigmatic graffiti artist KNARF.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026