How to Use hotbed in a Sentence

hotbed

noun
  • The long-starved slice of the city — the first grocery store in decades opened in June! — is now a housing hotbed.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The Cougars are stationed some 1,200 miles away from the hotbed of the conference.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Beyond the danger of the app itself, the platform is a hotbed of scams.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This was the 1980s, when Washington was a hotbed for the sale of crack cocaine.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Indeed, they were written in the hotbed of Berlin, where Einstein lived at the time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But the Twin Cities is emerging as a hotbed of worker activism.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Alabama was a little bit more of a hotbed for this stuff back in the summer.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2020
  • That’s why Texas is such a hotbed in almost every race.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 30 May 2022
  • The Boston area was an early hotbed of the pandemic in the United States.
    — Tom Sequist, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022
  • For all its flaws and quirks, Roblox is a hotbed of creativity.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
  • This summer doesn’t have a great free agent class and the Pacers haven’t exactly been a hotbed for free agents.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Plenty of research confirms that the kitchen sink is a hotbed of microbes.
    — Susannah Herrada, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Sitake and Hill have both talked about the importance of recruiting the state of Texas, the hotbed of Big 12 recruiting.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Doyle has taken no pleasure in fighting against football in this hotbed of the sport.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • New York had been a hotbed for the virus early in the year but had seemed to have gotten it largely under control.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Chicago has been a hotbed of craft brewing for more than a decade, but a funny thing has happened along the way: the suburbs.
    — Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The region has long been a hotbed for trafficking drugs, guns and people.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Poverty and fury have made the camp a hotbed of militancy.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And Cecina is a hotbed for cinque e cinque, a starch-on-starch sandwich stuffed with a chickpea flatbread.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Houston, Dallas, and maybe a little bit Austin are like the real hotbeds.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • The plant is located in the Dallas area, which is a hotbed for coronavirus at the moment.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • The growth, the great weather, the coaching have all made Arizona a hotbed for colleges from all over the country to find top players,'' Obert said.
    — Chris Coppola, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
  • Boston in the mid 1800s was a hotbed of anti-slavery activism.
    — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Stars are born in clouds of gas and dust, which is why nebulas are hotbeds for new star formation.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The find, the size of a pea, confirms Brunswick's reputation as a hotbed of sedition.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • The Peach State will be the hotbed for politics over the next month and a half, with the Senate majority hanging in the balance.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 23 Nov. 2020
  • That's why the Southwestern U.S. is such a hotbed of pepper growing.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The Dallas-Fort Worth area has always been a hotbed for girls basketball.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Though many are quick to defend Trump’s moves and agree Washington is a hotbed of waste, the attack on this agency has caused even some of his supporters to pause.
    — Matt Sedensky, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Arsenal has earned a reputation for being a hotbed of young talent with Saka homegrown and Myles Lewis-Skelly the latest to come through the club’s youth system.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

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