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Sizzling

adjective

Hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound. "A sizzling spell of weather"

Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement. Synonym: red-hot. "Sizzling political issues"

Sizzle

verb

(past & past part. sizzled; pres. part. sizzling)

Make a sound like frying fat.

Seethe with deep anger or resentment.

Burn or sear with a sizzling sound.

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"Sizzling" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to throw out the most tantalizing odor, and the sizzling bacon added its quota to the aroma, the boys felt they could hardly wait until things ...

— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen

... roasting in the ashes, or fresh fish sizzling on hot stones gave a charm to the learning of wood-lore that it never could have possessed otherwise. At first with the heedlessness of city-bred boys, they crashed through the under-brush with unseeing eyes, and unhearing ears, but it was not long until ...

— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston

... share with us," Dick said, getting to his feet and entering the cabin from which in a few moments came a rattle of fire being replenished, a coffee-pot being refilled, and the crisp, frying note of sizzling ...

— The Plunderer • Roy Norton

... three mounted and rode away. In such sizzling heat as beat down from the noonday sun Tom had not the heart to urge his mount to speed. The trio were soon at the edge of Paloma, which they had to enter through one of the streets occupied by the ...

— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock

... it over a Bunsen burner, oxygen is disengaged and may be collected over water, whereas in real life if you do anything of the sort the vessel cracks with a loud report, the potassium chlorate descends sizzling upon the flame, the experimenter says "Oh! Damn!" with astonishing heartiness and distinctness, and a lady student in the back seats gets ...

— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

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