Synonyms for white heat

Grammar : Noun

Définition of white heat

noun extreme heat

Example sentences :

It was the white heat of high passion that broke the silence when he spoke again.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

His eyes were ablaze, and there could be no doubt that his fury was at white heat.
Extract from : « The Hunters of the Ozark » by Edward S. Ellis

But, during the same revival and while it was at white heat, old Squire Geo.
Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various

She was very pale now, her anger having reached a white heat.
Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice

It was lucidity at white heat: the last sublimation of passion.
Extract from : « The Long Run » by Edith Wharton

John Ellis was at a white heat of rage and stubbornness now.
Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery

You can readily maintain it at a white heat, or even fuse it.
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

Aye, sir; he must have the white heat for this kind of fine work.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

Swithin felt the white heat in those faces—it was not decent!
Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy

Cuthbert rushed up to town at once in a white heat of indignation.
Extract from : « A True Friend » by Adeline Sergeant

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