(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
(n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) I savour the smell of the food stalls as I ride down Whitecross Street market at about 11am, inhaling successive wafts of roasting steak, baking flatbreads, frying onions, toasting cumin seeds, sizzling bacon, curries and chillies and pickles and melting cheese.
(3) Fat sizzles, flour sifts, and delicious smells waft around.
(4) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Of course it may have been that by the time he agreed to be interviewed by middle-of-the-road me he had begun to lose his cultural sizzle.
(5) Tom Watson used his media talents to get his weak-tea “Momentum are secret plotting plotters” stuff onto the news cycle for a couple of days, and that turned out to be all sizzle and no steak.
(6) The food, Korean, is cheap (starters less than a fiver; mains under £8) and very good: bibimbap, of course, also crisp fried mandu (dumplings) with homemade soy; tangy blanched and pickled veg; sizzling marinated beef; fat pork belly with garlic, kimchi and spicy doenjang sauce.
(7) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
(8) The Glory is co-owned and run by the Bert and Ernie of drag, Jonny Woo and John Sizzle.
(9) Temperatures are set to reach sizzling highs across large parts of the UK again on Wednesday with a high of 30C (86F) expected in the south of England and possibly 28C (82F) in Scotland.
(10) The Sun had an exclusive kiss-and-tell story from one of his former girlfriends, who told readers of their passionate affair and focused on a night when “sizzling Seb” had allegedly drunk far too much at the Athletics Writers’ Association’s annual dinner.
(11) Melt the rest of the lard in the pan and turn the heat up until the fat is sizzling.
(12) After joining West Brom, Foster announced his plan to build his own barbecue hut adjacent to his house, which would serve as a sanctuary in which he could kick back and sizzle flesh.
(13) 5 Fill a wok a third full with oil, heat until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns golden within 30 seconds, then fry the dumplings in batches until golden.
(14) With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India , officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
(15) "Things are sizzling," he said, adding that he was fearful the situation could get out of control if police and other agencies did not step in to reassure the community.
(16) Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies - Podcast Read more The two men stood with their arms crossed and heads cocked at the same angle, reviewing a scene in which a sound cue they had designed had gone awry.
(17) In September 1984, Sebastian Coe became “sizzling Seb” for two days.
(18) The comet at first seemed to have fallen apart as it approached the sun's sizzling surface, but new images showed a streak of light that some said could indicate it wasn't game over just yet.
(19) Looking at his website , I don't think Tuesday's seafood risotto, Wednesday's sizzling chicken fajitas or Saturday's mojito fruit salad would quite "weigh up".
(20) Bang goes my sizzling one-liner about the long-term risks of Nato's strategy.
Zing
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
(2) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(3) He admits to lacking the entrepreneurial zing of contemporaries such as Jamie Byng of Canongate; as he tells the story of his rise through the ranks, it sounds as if he triumphed by being able to keep his cool when faced with managers who had no feeling for books at all.
(4) It's those "extras" that give Secret Cinema its zing: live performance, music, food, dress-up – all sorts of tricks layered over a main-event screening, the details of which are kept a secret until the last moment.
(5) Their European foray this season has seen them become the first Kazakh side to be guarantee a place in the group stage of a Uefa competition – when Celtic knock them out they go into the glamorous Europa League – and that means Zing!
(6) Just a dash of juice or a sprinkling of zest can bring zing to even the most warming of winter dishes – Betty Bee's rib-sticking stew and Anna Thomson's split peas for example – but it was the fresh simplicity of Erum Gulmann's fruit salad, served with a rich, sweetly spiced Indian yoghurt, that stole my heart.
(7) It’s good to see the government has a plan for knights and dames – where’s their plan for jobs?” said opposition leader Bill Shorten, before yelling “zing” and insisting that deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek to “give him some skin”.
(8) The moment was intended to feel surreal, as though you were entering Miles’s mind, but as the door began to swing, a deep rumble erupted into a volley of zings and swishes – those troublesome tape decks – as if the scene had plunged into a battle in outer space.
(9) Since it arrived in a burst of glitter eight years ago, best friends Amy Zing and Glynfamous have turned their event from makeshift east London disco into a lavish, 3,000-capacity megamix of stage shows, live music (Little Mix!
(10) Something I think that women generally struggle with in this industry is saying, ‘Actually, I do this, and I’m good at it, and you need to recognise that.’ So reading nominations from people nominating themselves, and their friends, was really lovely, and also seeing men nominate their peers.” One of the judges, Zing Tsjeng , the UK editor of Broadly, pointed out that compared with other journalism awards a lot of younger women were being nominated.
(11) But there's evidence that the public doesn't find the line so zing-y.
(12) Illustration: Alexander Wells Markram's belief in the need for teamwork is rooted in his own experience as a brain researcher and his conviction that only neuroscience is capable of solving the deeper mysteries of how the electrical signals zinging between neurons produce consciousness and how interferences or malfunctions in those electrical channels produce disordered or "diseased" thinking.
(13) Applying some Eastern zing to the symbol of Welsh pride – the leek – it's supremely healthy, packing in spices, peppers and leeks bursting with flavour into a colourful lip-smacking dish.
(14) Chris Pratt as the rogueish leader and Zoe Saldana (green this time, not blue) zip around in cool ships saving the day, zinging each other with jokes.
(15) Press coverage zings with unlikely stories about Davis – that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA plans a "Hollywood-style heist" to spring him; that he is the linchpin of the CIA's drone programme.