steam

Example Sentences

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Today there was just the small yellow pool splattering slimy bubbles, and the rocks around—too hot to touch, hissing steam from every crack.

From Literature

They said their turbines can be configured as combined cycle, which means a steam turbine is added to capture waste heat.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once they lowered engines, boilers or heavy cargoes like steam locomotives into the belllies of ships.

From BBC

Ford narrowed the gap to seven points soon after as England threatened to build up a head of steam.

From BBC

“I think he’s running out of steam,” a few of my D.C. happy hour comrades confessed Wednesday after the hearings, “Or he’s really sicker than he lets on.”

From Salon