NOUN
- a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism
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an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
How To Use hot seat In A Sentence
- Rogers had been one of the early pacesetters, the Canberran setting 1: 00: 34 to sit in the hot seat, although with most of the bigger favorites still to race he was eventually pushed down into fifth. Cancellara wins fourth world time trial title
- He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
- He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
- He has now been thrust into the hot seat and has abandoned part of the tiki-taka philosophy.
- Excitement rose during the rapid-fire rounds, with one contestant from each of the groups in the ‘Hot seat’ trying to answer as many questions as possible before the timekeepers sounded the bell.
- Already the bookies are taking bets on whether Souness will still be in the Anfield hot seat neat season.
- He's had a major riot in his lifer wing; suddenly he's in the hot seat, doubtless under a lot of pressure from Whitehall. RIOT
- The sheer volume of players who have left since Molyneaux got the sack has made Patterson's first month in the hot seat a difficult one.
- Even the hot Seat Leon has torque steer - it's all part of the fun of driving a cranked-up small saloon.
- Local barber Joe Kelly stood, razor poised, as teacher Eugene O Brien took the hot seat.