Boiling
Boiling adjective - Having a notably high temperature.
Usage example: it was boiling in that car, and the owners had foolishly left their pet in it
Cold
Cold adjective - Having a low or subnormal temperature.
Usage example: an unusually cold spring that was followed by a sweltering summer
Both words in one sentence
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In order to demonstrate just how cold it was during the US's "polar vortex" of January 2014, NBC News threw a pot of boiling water in the air, which immediately froze.
Source: Do Not Do This Cool Thing -
You accidentally push one into a pool of boiling water in order to make it safe, and you kill the other one in cold blood for her Jinjo.
Source: Video Game / Banjo-Kazooie -
While the game makes it clear that Explosive Decompression and boiling organs are fantasies of the pre-Fall media, characters do still take 10 points of cold damage per minute the second they enter space without thermal protection.
Source: Space Is Cold
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