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/sˈɪzəlɪŋ/ /sˈɪzlɪŋ/ Listen

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

... hungry. As he rolled over on his elbow he was startled by a loud snort, and saw a bull caribou regarding him with alert curiosity. The animal was not mere than fifty feet away, and instantly into the man's mind leaped the vision and the savor of a caribou steak sizzling and frying over a fire. Mechanically he reached for the empty gun, drew a bead, and pulled the trigger. The bull snorted and leaped away, his hoofs rattling and clattering as he ...

— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... now jumping from one sizzling frying-pan into another. He had become vitally interested in the growth of women's clubs as a power for good, and began to follow their work and study their methods. He attended meetings; he had his editors attend others and give him reports; he collected and read ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

... the cold smile of luxury; but this parlor, sublime in reality, harmonious in tone, diffused the patriarchal ideas of a full and self-contained existence. The silence was unbroken save by the movements of the servant in the kitchen engaged in preparing the supper, and by the sizzling of the dried fish which she was frying in salt butter according to the ...

— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac

... a minute afterwards, though a whole night had passed; and there was the blessed clean water to wash in—he had long since ceased to be fastidious in his ablutions—and there was breakfast, sizzling bacon and bread and jam. And there in front of the kitchen, aiding with the hot water for the tea, moved a slim girl, with dark, and ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... one way to get the attention of the crew, and that was by an overpowering blast of profanity. I called to my assistance every ear-splitting, soul-sizzling oath ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

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