Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "overheated"

Lexicographically close words:
overhear; overheard; overhearing; overhears; overheat; overheating; overhung; overhunting; overindulgence; overjoyed
  1. The march to the Cross Roads was performed at a rapid run; the men were already overheated and weary, and now they threw away even their blankets, having already parted with their knapsacks.

  2. On returning to the main body, he ordered one of the horses, which had likewise been overheated in chasing the deer, to be left behind.

  3. Added to all this, we had overheated ourselves by marching about the neighbourhood in a burning sun for a couple of hours in search of the inhabitants.

  4. With such a heater, the conditions of overheated water--to be described later--may be almost entirely avoided.

  5. The only means of relieving the overheated condition is to open the faucet a slight amount and allow a portion of the heated water to be drawn off.

  6. Many houses are overheated in moderate weather and too much coal burned by running the boiler as for zero weather.

  7. If an iron requiring 5 amperes of current is attached to a circuit that is intended to carry only 3 amperes the conducting wires will be overheated and may be the cause of serious results.

  8. In the little overheated cook-house he found the meal set out.

  9. A night's journey in a crowded and overheated railway carriage, muffled in such garb, would not commend itself to the average individual as an ideal prelude to a hearty breakfast.

  10. The gramophone stopped as if by magic, and the overheated juggler caught and retained the soda-water bottle, the corkscrew and the half lemon with a gasp of relief.

  11. It should be raised or lowered gradually, so that the patient will not be overheated or chilled.

  12. It is often due to the fact that the room is too warm, or they are clothed too warmly; they get easily overheated and feel the slightest draught of air.

  13. A dog never develops rabies from a lack of water or from being confined or overheated during the summer months.

  14. In this way the glass would not be so likely to get overheated in spots, and better work would doubtless result.

  15. Dark flakes have probably been overheated during the preliminary refining.

  16. Though he was not gifted with a glowing imagination, still his mind was full of fancies, and one vision succeeded another in his overheated brain.

  17. The convocation of the States General was the safety-valve through which, in accordance with a wise provision, the overheated passions of the people were wont to find vent.

  18. The night air struck with biting keenness against them when they emerged from the stuffy, overheated building, and both wrapped their caped cloaks tightly round their shoulders.

  19. Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Anthony Dewhurst had settled their differences of opinion by solemnly agreeing to represent two over-grimy and overheated coal-heavers.

  20. The public in the parterre and in the galleries whispered excitedly; the awe-inspiring names flew about hither and thither on the wings of the overheated air.

  21. If overheated so that all water is driven off, the process of taking up water is so slow that the material is worthless.

  22. Thick scale sometimes cracks, and the water coming in contact with the overheated iron occasions an explosion.

  23. He felt an almost feverish longing for the open air, for a long draft of the fresh sweetness of the night, far away from this overheated atmosphere charged with unnamable things.

  24. The water was allowed to get low, and the overheated plates opened and allowed the steam to escape harmlessly.

  25. A thick accumulation of scale on the bottom had caused the plate to become overheated by preventing proper contact of the water.

  26. Perhaps no cause of explosion is oftener mentioned than shortness of water, and this is not unfrequently coupled with turning on the feed suddenly into an overheated boiler.

  27. The tube collapsed, having become overheated through shortness of water.

  28. The seams and plates were overheated by shortness of water, and gave way at ordinary pressure.

  29. The furnace crown became overheated from shortness of water, and was crushed down and torn across two seams.

  30. The tube collapsed sideways, having become overheated from shortness of water.

  31. It was said that the water was very bad, and deposited much mud, which allowed the seams to get overheated and injured.

  32. It had worked a very long time, and was overheated and injured along the fractured line.

  33. It was said that one side was overheated through shortness of water, but it is more than probable the explosion was owing to the weakness of so large a tube without strengthening rings.

  34. The cause of the explosion appeared to be from the failure of a seam over the fire place in a plate deteriorated by age, and overheated through a deposit of scurf and mud.

  35. The tube or combustion chamber collapsed, having become overheated through shortness of water.

  36. One of the tubes collapsed for a length of 8 feet having become overheated through shortness of water.

  37. He was very much at home in his overheated study, where he sat wrapped up in a dressing-gown and keeping one eye shut to strengthen the other.

  38. A warm mist rose around us laden with the smell of vegetation, ripe corn, and clover from the overheated earth and the neighboring fields, which had drunk their full of sunlight.

  39. There is n't such a thing in the house, love," panted her overheated parent.

  40. As a general thing the marriage altar seems to rest on a big cake of ice, and overheated couples catch colds that make 'em sniff the rest of their lives.

  41. He got overheated in the cold mountain-water, and he is in a bad fix, Alfred.

  42. The council-room was small, badly ventilated; the soon overheated atmosphere ruffled the temper.

  43. Hunt adopted the plan of drawing back his batteries over the crest of the hill, for the double purpose of cooling his guns that were becoming overheated and of saving his supply of ammunition, that was running low.

  44. The eyes of mankind have, as we said, been dimmed and shadowed, and at the same time the faculties have been overheated and the equipose of perception and memory seriously disturbed by this unnatural process of learning.

  45. This steel is so easily burnt by being overheated that it can only be placed in the hands of a very skilful workman.

  46. The capacity of this system is great, because a number of pieces can be heated without fear of any of them becoming overheated if not attended to immediately.

  47. It is nothing less than cruelty to work an overheated brain in such a case.

  48. It is good to do this so far as avoiding chills is concerned, but if the room be overheated and kept close and dark, only harm will ensue.

  49. But where real heat is found in the breath, it arises from an overheated state of the body internally.

  50. No errors of passion or of overheated blood did he have to mourn over, even in youth; yet he was not cold or unimpassioned, as his deep devotion throughout life to the woman of his choice proved.

  51. Be alert to detect any odor of overheated components or units such as generator, brakes, or clutch, fuel vapor from a leak in fuel system, exhaust gas, or other signs of trouble.

  52. If clutch has been badly overheated as a result of slippage, springs may be found in shrunken or weakened condition.

  53. Mortlake raged, old Mr. Harding almost wept, and Fanning sulkily explained that it wasn't his fault, the cylinders having overheated again.

  54. Sudden extreme variations of temperature should also be avoided, like going from an overheated apartment into the cold outside air, or into another cold chilly room.

  55. The prospective mother must resign her amusements at evening entertainments in crowded halls or theaters, in which the air becomes foul and overheated from large congregations of persons.

  56. The most important criterion in the production of aviation engine connecting rods is the elimination of burned or severely overheated forgings.

  57. A badly overheated or "burned" steel will have iridescent colors on a fresh fracture, it will be brittle both hot and cold, and absolutely ruined.

  58. On the other hand, overheated steel will have a coarser structure, depending on the extent of overheating.

  59. Steel which has been overheated slightly and the forging stopped at too high a temperature will show a "granular" fracture.

  60. The illustrations here reproduced are selected from those photographs with the object of presenting pictorially the changes involved in the refining of overheated steel or steel castings.

  61. But the usual feeling is that a tool must be hurried as soon as the hardener gets it, and if a burst die is the result from either uneven or overheated steel and quenching same without judgment, the steel gets the blame.

  62. The structure of overheated mild steel from which all the pegs were made (magnified 25 diameters).

  63. Into the holes in the side of the block small pegs of overheated mild steel were inserted.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overheated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ardent; baking; blistering; boiling; burning; canicular; ebullient; feverish; fiery; flushed; grilling; heated; hot; impassioned; overheated; roasting; scalding; scorching; seething; sudorific; sweating; sweaty; sweltering; torrid