Example Sentences

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Heat pumps — basically, air conditioners that also heat — have been heating homes for decades without fossil fuels and without emissions.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2022

Germany's three-way coalition talks have been heating up as the two smaller parties, the pro-spending Greens and the more fiscally conservative FDP, are both wrangling over who should take the finance minister job.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2021

Internal talks over the structure of the hearings originally scheduled for July 17 have been heating up for days, with some members complaining they might not have enough time carved out to ask questions.

From Fox News • Jul. 12, 2019

In recent weeks deliberations over a new development blueprint for Santa Monica’s downtown — known as the DCP, for Downtown Community Plan — have been heating up.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2017

The problems have been heating up in the last month.

From New York Times • May 4, 2012