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
With her hands she brushed away a hot tear from each eye.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
A hot tear squeezed from the corner of his left eye.
From O+F by John Moncure Wetterau
She felt a hot tear on her hand, which had come in spite of the maiden.
From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai
Then suddenly I felt a hot tear drop upon my forehead.
From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by W. B. Gilbert
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