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Example sentences for "steaming"

Lexicographically close words:
steamboating; steamboats; steamed; steamer; steamers; steams; steamship; steamships; steamy; stearate
  1. One of the boys, when he thought the Doctor was not looking, emptied the steaming fragrant cocoa from his mug and filled it with water instead.

  2. He pried off the cover, and then the pot rolled off the stove with a terrible clatter, and its steaming contents were dumped out on the floor.

  3. That night as the men sat around the cabin lamp with their pipes and a big pail of steaming cocoa, Dr.

  4. The fact that the Strathcona kept steam up and was "steaming to her anchors" all night long had saved her, the only survivor of the entire fleet.

  5. Truk is most certainly in the force's plans, but it is not steaming directly there.

  6. In addition to it being a perfect day the mighty Yank carrier force steaming westward was a sight to catch the throat of even the most self-centered landlubber.

  7. Chase feels the hot scent steaming up under his very nostril; feels it in every nerve, and quivers with anxiety to dash on his prey, even while perfectly restrained and steady.

  8. But outside the town, on the veldt, a huge depot of all sorts of goods is growing larger and larger every day, as the trains, one after another, come steaming north with their loads of supplies.

  9. Trains keep steaming up with more supplies or trucks crowded with khaki-clad soldiers, or guns, khaki painted too, and the huge artillery horses that the Colonials admire so prodigiously.

  10. She carried a steaming mug in her hand, and mutter'd all the while in no very choice talk.

  11. To decaffeinate coffee, the most common practise is to make the green beans soft by steaming under pressure, and then to apply benzol or chloroform or alcohol to the softened coffee to dissolve and to extract the caffein.

  12. So, when over their cups, they always make certain they can see bottom before raising the steaming bowl to the lip.

  13. Seek surer means, to banish haunting cares: Place on the board the steaming Coffee-pot!

  14. Onion was steaming along at the rate of ten to twenty pages a day now, forwarding them as fast as written, while his courage was good and the fires warm.

  15. Howells was too tired and too occupied to undertake immediately a new dramatic labor, so Clemens went steaming ahead alone.

  16. One day they were steaming up the river when Brown noticed that the boat seemed to be heading toward some unusual point.

  17. The Uncle Sam came steaming up toward St. Louis, those on board congratulating themselves on having come through unscathed.

  18. The Gay Lady had just lifted a dozen out of the steaming pan for her, but Azalea had laid them all down on the table, and was polishing them one by one.

  19. She brought him first a small cup of chicken broth, steaming hot; and though he regarded this at first as if he had no appetite whatever, after the first tentative sip he went on to the bottom of the cup.

  20. Under this thick shade all the riotous vegetation of the tropics had fought for life and struggled for light and air till the wealth of their luxuriant death had carpeted the underwood with a thick deposit of steaming foliage.

  21. Next evening as we were steaming down the blue waters--deep blue they always seemed to me--of the Red Sea, I was sitting on the foredeck smoking and trying to think.

  22. We were steaming along the southern coast of Java.

  23. While he paced up and down the deck he thought more of the passengers and their money than he did of the tugs that might at any moment come steaming up the creek.

  24. As his guests entered the room Graheme presented them with a large silver cup of steaming liquor.

  25. However, both the commodore and Captain Elliot seemed already to regard the island of Hong-Kong as a positive acquisition, and took the present opportunity of steaming all round it on board the Nemesis.

  26. On the 1st July, much to the astonishment of every one at Cape Town, she was descried, late in the evening, quietly steaming into Table Bay.

  27. That which answered best for steaming purposes had a less promising appearance than the other qualities.

  28. Everybody was warm, and wet clothing was steaming in the overheated tent.

  29. Just as a woman handed her a steaming cup of hot broth, she heard her name spoken.

  30. The girls looked over the rim of the steaming kettle and saw a quantity of bubbling fats.

  31. How good the steaming juicy meat tasted to the two hungry ones.

  32. The band of chums were very hungry and they seated themselves around the table before the steaming cups of coffee and waited impatiently for the food to be brought on, but the little Greek lad took a position behind their chairs and waited.

  33. The waiter was back almost instantly with a tray-load of steaming dishes which he placed upon the table.

  34. Nothing was said about tea for the two servants, but while the "quality" had theirs on an exquisite terrace, the chauffeur brought a steaming cup to me, as I sat in the car.

  35. She felt so chilled, she was quite anxious about herself, and should certainly not dare to start for Avignon until she had had a glass of steaming hot rum punch or something of that sort, at the inn.

  36. I caught trout that afternoon, on the edge of steaming pools in the Madison River that seemed to my hand almost blood-warm.

  37. Near by we came upon a steaming pool, or lakelet, of an acre or more in extent.

  38. To be sure, boiling lakes and steaming rivers are not common, but the new features seemed, somehow, out of place, and as if nature had made a mistake.

  39. With Captain Chittenden I climbed to the top, stepping over the rills and creeks of steaming hot water, and looked at the marvelously clear, cerulean, but boiling, pools on the summit.

  40. Butsey White, sitting on the doorstep of Laloo's, gazed at him from the depths of a steaming frankfurter sandwich.

  41. Pick him out a nice, young Pomeranian," said Butsey, peering into the steaming tin.

  42. Over this fire they made their steaming pots of tea.

  43. When they awoke a steaming pot of coffee and an abundant breakfast awaited them.

  44. They then arose, succeeded in lighting the cooking lamp, and had a steaming soup ready when the rest arrived.

  45. Having taken a short nap we were aroused by the mistress of the house, who had prepared a plentiful meal of steaming bear-steak.

  46. A fox had been shot and was already in the cook's steaming pot, to which a good supply of the green plants was added.

  47. The camp was set ablaze, some young eiders and a burgomaster, shot just before we landed, were soon cooked, a steaming pot of coffee served up, and we talked over our adventures as we satisfied our craving hunger.

  48. Little Charlie was evidently disgusted with his native country, for he immediately turned his back upon it, the ship steaming away that afternoon.

  49. But the frozen meat at which we had been nibbling was soon thrown aside for hot coffee, steaming stew, and thawed blubber.

  50. The cooks were obliged to call to their help the commander in order to keep the lamp from being puffed out, and two hours were consumed in getting a steaming pot of coffee.

  51. There was a square block of bread at the side of each pewter plate, a tin cup of cold water, and very soon a ladle-full of the steaming bean-soup was dealt round to each.

  52. Some hours later they were steaming through a deep blue sea along brilliantly green shores, above which rose rugged peaks and mountains.

  53. Into port are steaming the Birmingham, scout cruiser, and the Wasp, torpedo destroyer, the craft that rescued the castaways of Castle Island.

  54. She was steaming in the same direction as the Tropic Queen and going quite as fast.

  55. But now they were steaming at top speed toward the hulk of a flying-boat--that is, provided she was still on the surface.

  56. The delicious odor of fried trout floated out from the long-room, and the rolls were steaming hot in snow-white napkins.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steaming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablaze; aerial; aerodynamic; aery; afire; airy; ardent; boating; boiling; breathless; burning; canoeing; cordial; cruising; delirious; distillation; drunk; enthusiastic; ethereal; evaporation; excited; exuberant; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fiery; flaming; flushed; fumigation; fuming; furious; gaseous; gassy; glowing; hearty; heated; hectic; hot; impassioned; intense; intoxicated; keen; lively; miasmic; navigation; passionate; pneumatic; reeking; rowing; sailing; seafaring; seething; smoking; smoky; steaming; steamy; sublimation; sultry; sweltering; torrid; unrestrained; vaporous; vigorous; warm; yachting; zealous