slow burn
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of slow-burn.
Example Sentences
- "My own very personal journey into the deepest love of all – that of a parent for a child – was a slow burn. But it left me deeply connected to Milo in a way that I never imagined."
- "The ‘carbon bomb’ stored in the thawing Arctic permafrost may be released in a slow leak as global warming takes hold, rather than an eruption, according to new research. [see title]"
- "Thinking of AI like a bomb makes it seem like something that is deployed in a singular event, albeit one with devastating consequences rather than the slow burn that is consuming jobs and culture."
- "He's been in a slow burn all morning."
- "In the ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error" and began a slow burn."
- "Revson breathed deeply. “I shall try to conceal my slow burn, what the Victorians would call my mounting exasperation. I thought we had parted friends.”"
Usage
Inflected Forms
slow burns (plural)
slow-burn (alternative)
more slow burn (comparative)
most slow burn (superlative)