Example sentences for: hothouse

How can you use “hothouse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My suburb, Pelham, is Westchester's alleged literary-media colony, but I have never been to a single social event here where a hothouse conversation about the Industry could be sustained for more than about half an hour before it slowly flutters back to home ground: the town and the kids.

  • Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) calls it "one of the more exotic blooms in the Disney hothouse."

  • Friendless, encased in a hothouse terrarium of her own ambition, she has no goals beyond furthering her own career.

  • The reports do not claim widespread abuses of test subjects but say that the increased speed of research created by the hothouse competition among drug companies has led to weaknesses in the ways safety is monitored.

  • Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)


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