steaminess

Example Sentences

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The steaminess of a summer day exploded into storminess Tuesday evening, offering the spectacle of thunder, lightning and wind-whipped rain, along with the discomforts of power outages at tens of thousands of homes and businesses.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

Its full steaminess was not yet upon us.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2021

“Indebted” creator Dan Levy, a comedian and producer for “The Goldbergs,” said that he originally modeled Debbie and Stew after his own parents, but that the steaminess was all Drescher.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020

The steaminess can’t get out, so there’s no danger of the fish drying out.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2018

She was too wretchedly in earnest to be tragic, or gloriously insulted, or anything save dumpy and defenseless and flushed to the red steaminess of a boiled beet.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair