as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the appeal of piping hot cocoa after an afternoon of shoveling snow
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Recent Examples of piping hot
As Nara recommends, this dish is best piping hot or at least warm.
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Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2026
Whether that’s an unexpected text, surprise crush or piping hot tea that changes the game, conversations could easily change the trajectory of your relationship… and fast!
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
There’s some piping hot Conference League on Thursday too, also with plenty of ties still in play.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
And the tortillas were piping hot and fresh.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2026
Whether that’s an unexpected text, surprise crush or piping hot tea that changes the game, conversations could easily change the trajectory of your relationship… and fast!
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
There’s some piping hot Conference League on Thursday too, also with plenty of ties still in play.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
And the tortillas were piping hot and fresh.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for piping hot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piping hot
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More humane methods of killing lobsters pre-boiling include a sharp knife through the head, electrical stunning, or freezing.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Crisping the perfect pizza crust on a baking steel, searing steaks on a grill, draining a pot of scalding pasta water, or pulling a hot potato from an oven—none of these are the time or place to play it fast and loose.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 June 2026
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In April the hearing resumed with three searing days of testimony.—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
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An Irvine dog trainer who operated Happy K9 Academy was convicted of killing 11 dogs by keeping them in small crates in a hot van and lying to the pets’ owners about the deaths, authorities said.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Oklahoma’s bats remained scorching hot, racking up 12 hits - including five more home runs - and got a quality start from freshman Nick Wesloski.—
Hunter DeLauder,
AJC.com,
18 June 2026
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Some people drove or walked by, staring, and a video of the cross-burning gained traction online.—
Hallie Golden,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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An important insider just shed light on one of the most burning questions in reality TV.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 May 2026
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The flipping technique for his classic, beautifully molten-on-the-inside Spanish tortilla takes a good amount of practice to master.—
General Manager,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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Xcimer intends to address this by using a moving curtain of molten salt inside the reactor chamber instead of a static solid wall.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
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“Piping hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piping%20hot. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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