Examples of hotbed

• It provided a supply of new recruits but was at the same time a hotbed of dissent.

• The introduction of these model homes had not had any effect on the incidence of relapsing fever, for the places were still hotbeds of the disease during winter.

• Divisional chiefs struggled to become paramounts, and paramountcies were particular hotbeds of litigation.

• Just as the western states were hotbeds of other democratizing reforms, such as the initiative, referendum, and female suffrage, they likewise embraced direct election of senators.

• You have also the fact that street trading is a hotbed of criminality, and of the loafer and cadger.

• The bracken plant is a hotbed of disease.

• They have turned the trade unions of this country into hotbeds of political intrigue.

• There are people who speak as if the county schools were hotbeds of immorality and atheism.