STEAM in a Sentence

Learn STEAM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
92 example sentences for STEAM, such as:
1. A sauna is a type of steam bath.
2. The kitchen was beclouded with steam.
3. Vents allow any steam to escape if the system overheats.
4. Water is changed into steam by heat and into ice by cold.
5. It is natural that steam trains gave way to electric trains.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STEAM
steam
 v.  rise as vapor
 v.  emit steam
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  One of Mrs. Merriwether's nephews observed impertinently that while he didn't especially enjoy driving a dray, it was his own dray and he would rather get somewhere under his own steam than Scarlett's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  In a shack of thin boards covered with tar-paper she saw the washerwoman, Mrs. Steinhof, working in gray steam.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  The big piebald horses snorted clouds of steam, and started to trot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
5  In a few moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
6  My horse's breath rose like steam, and whenever we stopped he smoked all over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  The wheat harvest was over, and here and there along the horizon I could see black puffs of smoke from the steam threshing-machines.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
8  Beyond opens a door into the kitchen, where there is a glimpse to be had of a range with much steam ascending from it, and many women, old and young, rushing hither and thither.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  There was a great steam power plant and an electricity plant.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  His soaked clothing began to steam, and the horrible stench of fertilizer to fill the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  Behold, therefore, the whole party safely transferred to the good steamer Cincinnati, and sweeping up the river under a powerful head of steam.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
13  The steam of so much boredom, and discontent and anger out of all the people, just kills the vitality in the air.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  And Uthwaite, on a damp day, was sending up a whole array of smoke plumes and steam, to whatever gods there be.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  The larks were trilling away over the park, the distant pit in the hollow was fuming silent steam.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Vents allow any steam to escape if the system overheats.
2  A sauna is a type of steam bath.
3  The old engine still manages to build up a good head of steam.
4  A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive.
5  Water is changed into steam by heat and into ice by cold.
6  The kitchen was beclouded with steam.
7  The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
8  It is natural that steam trains gave way to electric trains.
9  The pressure of steam in the engine is controlled by this button.
10  The engine is letting off steam to relieve the pressure in the boiler.
11  The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.
12  How fragrant were the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast!
13  The piston is the only movable part, the force of the steam is directed to that part, and the motion is then transmitted to the crank, and to the shaft of the engine.
14  A steam rupture occurs within a nuclear power plant when the temperature of the nuclear reactor reaches a certain level too quickly.
15  There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam -- and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.