steam
Example Sentences
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Growing up, my mother would make a simple salad of sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, and lemons, drizzled with salt, served alongside homemade curries, spiced rice and steamed fish fillets wrapped in banana leaf parcels.
From Salon
Either way, your professional relationship with this heating company has run out of steam.
From MarketWatch
It regained steam in the 1950s, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to create the center in 1958.
“After meaningful inventory gains last year, the recovery has lost steam,” says Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist, in the company’s monthly housing report.
Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
