steaming

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile Klenam and I made the fufu, me pounding the steaming plantain and cassava together in the large wooden mortar while she turned and shaped the blended mass adeptly between each stroke of the pestle.

From Literature

Last spring, at an outdoor market in Chongqing, China, I browsed stalls heaped with dried red chiles and steaming sweet cakes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The adults are still steaming the corms in batches, but everyone is ready to eat.

From Literature

In New York, excavators scooped piles of snow into steaming orange trailers known as "hot tubs," which send the meltwater down into the city's sewer system.

From Barron's

"You are steaming, boiling the bed sheets - we even got a new washing machine," she said.

From BBC