Example sentences for: hothouse

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

  • 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.)

  • 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 hotel is a hothouse maze: The tacky décor is oppressive, the images shot a little too close, the camera angles skewed to induce vertigo.


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