steamed up
Example Sentences
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As he works the espresso machine in a bar on Zagreb's bustling Flower Square, barman Luka says he suspects that people are getting steamed up over nothing.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2023
They have muddled our words, eclipsed our facial expressions, steamed up our glasses and left us with sweaty chins.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2022
My vest and bike shorts were sodden with sweat, the windows and back door were steamed up from the heat I had generated.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2017
Guiding the ship past Confederate forts and issuing checkpoint signals, Smalls steamed up the Cooper River, stopping at a wharf to pick up his wife, child and his crew’s families.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016
The fogs slowly gathered together and steamed up into a huge umbrella of cloud: it must have been a mile high.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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