piping hot
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Your daughter made you a lukewarm cup of tea, and you are rewarding her with a piping hot mug of the finest Colombian coffee.
From MarketWatch
It is made by brushing butter onto a piping hot naan and sprinkling a generous amount of chopped garlic on it.
From BBC
West End Girl’ is an active listening experience where one must sift through the many contradictions, confessions and piping hot, unfiltered tea.
From Los Angeles Times
The soup course was served, and then a fish course, and finally the main dish was brought out in great kettles, piping hot and fragrant with paprika.
From Literature
But, much as a soufflé comes piping hot out of the oven taut and round as a birthday balloon but shrivels disappointingly as soon as the cool air hits it, her own mere mention of those “awful workmen” had already caused Lady Constance’s enthusiasm to collapse into a fresh fit of pique.
From Literature
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