How to Use hot seat in a Sentence

hot seat

noun
  • Lovie is the lucky one of the four on our hot seat list last year.
    Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • At the same time, not every project seems to be in the hot seat.
    New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Harsin is believed to be on the hot seat as the coach at Auburn.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • As for the second part of the question: Blashill is on the hot seat.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The collapse has placed coach Ron Rivera on the hot seat for 2019.
    oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2019
  • No more breathers while the other folks were on the hot seat.
    John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Gabe Kapler could be on the hot seat if things don't turn around.
    Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • Andy Cohen does not spend a lot of time in the hot seat.
    Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Smart, who was on the hot seat to start the season, has guided the Longhorns to an 11-2 record.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Although the season is over, Richards hasn't been able to get out of the hot seat.
    Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Friday, when top cop David Brown will be on the hot seat.
    Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
  • Kingsbury, on the other hand, could very well be on the hot seat.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2022
  • It’s not Dior’s first time in the hot seat in regard to China.
    NBC News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • If Texas Tech struggles this fall, is Matt Wells on the hot seat?
    Scott Bell, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Rennie was even on the hot seat in the eyes of the Indy Eleven front office.
    Kevin Johnston, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2021
  • So, that puts James Comey in the hot seat for a wide variety of things.
    Fox News, 6 June 2018
  • Are Travis Steele and John Brannen on the hot seat, even a little?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2021
  • On the hot seat: Rougned Odor is at a career crossroads.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The Bachelorette's time in the hot seat begins as a love fest.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In the past, the free agent market was drive largely by GMs and coaches on the hot seat.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Once again, Clay Helton will start the year on the hot seat at Southern Cal.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
  • What a difference a year makes: Robert Saleh could go from the hot seat to a top seat.
    Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 30 Dec. 2019
  • So why does Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin seem to be in the hot seat?
    Chelsea Gohd, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2021
  • How does one stay engaged when they aren’t used to losing and are on the hot seat?
    al, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The Bears have lost four games in a row, and Matt Nagy is often listed as a coach on the hot seat.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Wednesday was Judge Barrett’s last day in the hot seat.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The three-mile stretch is crisp, clean and offers a pretty hot seat to the park’s mountains and scenery.
    Sara Cagle, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • Jesse brought up Shanae and Genevieve's two-on-one date in Toronto and had the bartender, 26, join Shanae in the hot seat.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Coaching decisions No, coach Mike McDaniel isn’t on any hot seat for the way this season ended.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Here's an anecdote more frightening than being put on Andy Cohen's hot seat: Kyle Richards lives in a haunted house.
    EW.com, 31 Oct. 2023

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