How to Use hotbed in a Sentence

hotbed

noun
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  • 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
  • That’s why Texas is such a hotbed in almost every race.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 30 May 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
  • 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
  • Poverty and fury have made the camp a hotbed of militancy.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Houston, Dallas, and maybe a little bit Austin are like the real hotbeds.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Boston in the mid 1800s was a hotbed of anti-slavery activism.
    — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • That's why the Southwestern U.S. is such a hotbed of pepper growing.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Storing knives in wood blocks is more likely to dull your knives, and those knife blocks could also be a hotbed for yeast, mold and other germs.
    — Kristy Alpert, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Charlottesville in the early 1990s was a cheap, freewheeling town to be young, broke, and arty, so WTJU was a hotbed of music geeks.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The Haţeg Basin has been a hotbed for dinosaur discoveries.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The game with the North Carolina Courage will mark the return of women’s professional soccer to an area that has long been a hotbed of the sport.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • California is a hotbed for cactus —35 species call the state home — and the coastal prickly pear is one of the most common in the Los Angeles area.
    — Aliese Willard Muhonen, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • The city of Jenin has been a hotbed of Palestinian militancy.
    — Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • Thanks to its health-conscious hippie past, Eugene is a hotbed for natural food stores and quirky green shops.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
  • What used to be a parking lot at the stadium is now a hotbed of activity, with must-stop places, to dine, drink and unwind.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The 118-year-old hotel was a hotbed of creativity in part because its low rents gave artists the freedom to focus on their craft.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 14 July 2023
  • Even the real deal—the actual IPL tournament—is a hotbed of bettors.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • Meat plants became a hotbed for Covid outbreaks in the first year of the pandemic as workers grappled with long hours in crowded work spaces.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • The North Bay is a hotbed of ultrarunning, home to renowned endurance athletes and host to long-distance foot races that draw elite runners from around the country.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Such markets, with a menagerie of wildlife in close, crowded conditions with humans, are known to act as hotbeds of risk for viral adaption and spillovers.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2023
  • However, the salad bar may also be a hotbed of germs, including the kind that can lead to food poisoning.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Houston is a hotbed for talent, from the professional level to high school, AAU and college.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Paper Boi's rap career off the ground in Atlanta, a hotbed of industry talent.
    — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Be warned, a hotbed of ghosts or not, Lick Road is dangerous to drive on at night and if you're tempted to venture past the gates into private property, don't.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, sports have long been a hotbed of business model innovation.
    — Bill Fischer, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Where to Eat The hotbed of creativity in Manchester extends to its culinary scene.
    — Claire Marie Healy, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Badlands, and the area surrounding it, is known as a hotbed of fossils, from vertebrates that used to live in the sea to dinosaurs that roamed after the water receded.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023

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