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sizzling

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verb

present participle of sizzle
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as in hissing
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ from my bed I could hear the bacon sizzling in the frying pan

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
  • In between those stretches, Minnesota was a blazing inferno, hitting 20 of 35 attempts from beyond the arc to blitz the Lakers in Game 1.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The play in question came in the sixth inning when the blazing Chandler Simpson hit a soft grounder to Paul Goldschmidt at first.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The only drawback is that while Raphinha has been outstanding, the Brazilian has been on an unsustainable, white-hot finishing run in Europe this season.
    Brett Koremenos, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • What began as a white-hot heel turn by The New Day has gone somewhat lukewarm over the last couple of months.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There was understandable tension in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich, but something was bubbling from minute one against Porto.
    Art de Roché, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
  • One perk is that the bubbling stream provides the ideal ecosystem where hemlock and rhododendron thrive along the banks.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That same year, the Legislature appropriated $180 million that the Air Resources Board could use to fund alternatives to burning.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have formed from a second reservoir of molten rock 4.35 billion years ago.
    Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • As the molten rock cools into a solid, the pressure slowly forces the plates that hold North America and Europe farther apart.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Ibrahimovic, in particular, endured a torrid evening.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The Dodgers pulled away in the fifth inning with a solo home run from Teoscar Hernandez – the 200th home run of his career – and a two-run home run from Pages, who went a torrid 10 for 12 in the weekend series against the Pirates.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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