steam up
Example Sentences
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But many other ingredients benefit from long, slow cooking, and a pot of chickpeas or beets will steam up your kitchen as pleasantly and fill your belly just as heartily as chicken or beef.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
It's a legitimate one, too - lenses can steam up when you wear a mask because your warm breath comes out of the top of the mask, hitting the cooler lenses and clouding them up.
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2020
When America’s News HQ cut to Tenney in El Paso for the third time, he really got a head of steam up during his closing:
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2019
But detractors barely had time to get a full head of rageful steam up before the news pieces were updated.
From The Verge • May 20, 2016
When Marie-Laure holds her hand over Madame’s chest, heat seems to steam up out of her sternum as though she cooks from the inside.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
