white heat
a stage of intense activity, excitement, feeling, etc.: The sales campaign is at white heat.
an intense heat at which a substance glows with white light.
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How to use white heat in a sentence
"Really, you ought to write all this," exclaimed Aunt Maria, her imagination fired to a white heat.
Overland | John William De ForestAs supper-time came, they set this heap afire and let it burn for an hour or two, until the great flat ledge was at a white heat.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley SmithThe door swung open—no mosquitoes were stirring in that white heat—and the sun slanted inward with long dazzling rays.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamA burst of white heat rolled out of the gun, licking around Rudi.
Second Variety | Philip Kindred DickNations are benefited, I believe, for ages, by being thrown once into divine white-heat in this manner.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle
British Dictionary definitions for white heat
intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light
informal a state of intense excitement or activity
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