scalding
- present participle of scald.
Example Sentences
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“I’m not safe around anybody. I can’t even pass a cup of scalding hot coffee to my wife without spilling it on the dog. ... I don’t trust myself around anybody anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
The title invokes the container for holding scalding liquid metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
The building’s windows were leaky, which means big trouble in North Dakota’s frigid winters and scalding summers.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
She says she did not pursue a complaint because she feared that being a junior member of the team, "chances were, I'd be booted off the production, and he may have only got a scalding".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
The water temperature bubbled a few degrees above comfortable—not scalding as I’d feared, but hot enough to scare me.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
