Example sentences for: steam

How can you use “steam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By the time he made that picture, though, he had already taken in works by more venturesome Pictorialists that showed the modern city as itself and had produced Railroad Sidings, New York (1914): a couple of willful diagonals of boxcars surmounted by a tangle of rails and a head of steam that has nothing to do with mist.

  • So that was that for the wisps of steam at our breakfast table.

  • I had in mind the sort that appeared in magazines, with the little wisps of steam visible as the plates were lowered to the table.

  • We (the School and you) have come a long way--not only under our own steam, but with the combined help of many others.

  • But the adoption of steam power in New England was delayed until the 1850s and 1860s, at which time most of the significant water-power sites were already in use.


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