sizzle
verb (used without object)
to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.
have sizzled
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present perfectof sizzle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For nearly a month, millions of people across the American Southwest have sizzled, sweated and sweltered under a heat wave that refuses to let up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
On Wall Street, where financial stocks have sizzled this year, the marriage was greeted with huge plaudits.
From Time Magazine Archive
They must have sizzled as from the national capital an angry message shot out to the other ships to talk in code.
From The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn
The bloodthirsty fervour of the crowd seemed to have sizzled.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
And, had I had it, I know it would have sizzled in my belly like water spilled on heated stones for the roasting.
From On the Makaloa Mat by Jack London
