hot tear
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hot tear
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Her words burn all the way down my neck into my chest like a scalding hot tear.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Dead! and no hot tear would stir All that woman sweet and fair, Woman soul from feet to hair Which was once of her.
From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein
Then suddenly I felt a hot tear drop upon my forehead.
From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by W. B. Gilbert
A hot tear rolled into her lap, and formed itself into a pearl, glowing with all the colors of the rainbow.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
A hot tear squeezed from the corner of his left eye.
From O+F by John Moncure Wetterau
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