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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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as in steaming
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she was really sizzling about being passed over for the promotion, and nearly quit
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as in blazing
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
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Tennessee and the South are in for blazing conditions for the foreseeable future, according to meteorologists.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
23 July 2025 -
The 21-year-old Hairston was one of the fastest cornerbacks at the 2025 NFL Combine, running a blazing 4.28 40-yard dash.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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For another, the white-hot, moment-to-moment global focus by the broadcasters and the paparazzi on the occupants of the seats around her is a given.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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The movie also comes as the once white-hot market for superhero films has cooled, both domestically and abroad.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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This means that voters and Congress members alike are driven not so much by loyalty to their own party but instead a sort of seething hatred for the other political party.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this rifting, but a new study in Nature Geoscience suggests it is caused by rhythmic pulses of molten rock from deep below the surface.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
7 July 2025
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That involves a narrow escape from its fiery vat of molten steel.—
Peter Balonon-Rosen,
Vox,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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The contribution was the latest of a torrid stretch for Vázquez, who is batting .306/.390/.472 with a homer and five RBIs in 41 plate appearances dating back to April 24.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The Knicks continued their torrid surge to start the third quarter, with Anunoby scoring five quick points to cap a 33-13 run.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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