Example sentences for: steam

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

  • The strike may be losing steam, though: Students who want to return to school are holding demonstrations against the strikers.

  • You can see it gathering steam in Surviving Picasso , the 1996 Merchant-Ivory film that views Picasso pathetically, through the unsympathetic eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot.

  • This restless spirit has the power to cause steam vents to erupt and windows to explode in showers of glass.

  • (Apt names, actually: a chuffing steam train starting or stopping really does sound like an excited horse; and the earliest railway carriages, like the earliest motorcars, looked very much like their horse-drawn counterparts, having been built by the same craftsmen.)

  • New Brunswick Museum (277 Douglas Avenue) is devoted principally to the province’s grand old shipbuilding industry, the source of considerable prosperity before timber had to bow to the new age of steam and steel.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast