Sentence examples for it is scalding from inspiring English sources

The movie's ruthless porn merchants and talk show personnel, who suddenly turn pious when what they do for a living comes too close to home, are skewered with a mockery as funny as it is scalding.

Use water as warm as you can stand it but not so that it is scalding.

"It was scalding hot".

Blow on it: it's scalding hot.

Heat the milk over a low heat until it's scalding hot.

I reached out and touched the edge: it was scalding hot, from friction.

We finally made it to the hotel, and it was scalding hot, humid, no air-conditioning, and, of course, the elevator didn't work.

"Sometimes you don't have water for three days, sometimes it's scalding hot," said Miriam Williams, 47, whose mother lives in Red Hook Houses.

It's scalding me," I said, because by now, of course, the bedsheet once again was burning against my legs, and the pillow felt like a hot, smothery biscuit beneath my head.

As was true of "Jerusalem," here was a world premiere unimaginable without the gentle probing of a director, Jeremy Herrin, who turned a text that begins with a scream into an evening as funny as it was scalding.

Though it was scalding hot outdoors and both an air-conditioner and a fan whirred invitingly in the Marc Jacobs women's shop at Bank and West Fourth Streets in Greenwich Village, inside was the last place several employees wanted to be early Saturday afternoon.