How to Use superheated in a Sentence

superheated

adjective
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  • The chaos and noise of the world filled me with a superheated rage.
    — Banning Lyon, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The Fed’s goal is to reduce the superheated demand for goods and services that has caused prices to mount.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • Superheated toxic gasses and smoke fill the lungs, searing the throat which closes like a fist.
    — Longreads, 9 May 2017
  • This is a vast region of superheated gas held in place by the sun’s magnetic field.
    — By Deborah Netburn, idahostatesman, 26 May 2017
  • Once the lava drops, rocks that had been superheated could fall into the lava tube.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • The warming Arctic had knocked the jet stream wonky again, sucking superheated air north from the Sahara.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • To look or not to look: That was the question Fez mulled as Euphoria’s superheated subplots swirled around his life.
    — Vulture, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Our sun, like all stars, is a giant ball of superheated plasma.
    — Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2022
  • Use caution when stirring the bowls and handling them as the gels can become superheated.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2012
  • As the crust cooled, a roof formed over the flow and superheated lava continued downhill like a subway.
    — Jeff Layton, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
  • Because there wasn’t sunlight to block the view, Parker captured the full brightness of the superheated surface of the planet.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The high-pressure release of steam caused superheated water vapor to fill the building the men were working in.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 2 June 2021
  • The superheated vapor then moves through an indoor coil, where fans blow air across it, moving heat into the home.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and glows in X-rays.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This darker disk was set against a ring of light emitted by superheated matter just outside the event horizon.
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Storms like these are caused when the sun emits superheated plasma, according to Travel + Leisure.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The superheated gas is then cooled, forming solid pellets about the size of arborio rice.
    — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • On the seafloor, new crust is born and hydrothermal vents spew superheated fluids along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms part of the world’s longest mountain range.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2016
  • East of the mountains, a powder keg of unstable, superheated air was literally packed to the hilt by evening.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
  • The edge of the circle is the black hole's event horizon, the region beyond which even light cannot escape, and the bright halo is superheated gas and dust burning at billions of degrees.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Galaxy clusters also contain tons of superheated gas, seen in blue with the new Chandra data at the center of the image.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This, the lithosphere, rests upon a layer of superheated rock, the asthenosphere.
    — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Each mighty blastoff left traces on the flame trench, a 42-foot-deep pit lined with fire-resistant bricks and concrete that channels a rocket’s superheated exhaust away from the spacecraft.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Each mighty blastoff left traces on the flame trench, a 42-foot-deep pit lined with fire-resistant bricks and concrete that channels a rocket’s superheated exhaust away from the spacecraft.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
  • Visitors to the superheated Dallol crater must often wear gas masks to survive the toxic fumes.
    — Ken Jennings, CNT, 2 Oct. 2017
  • A lot of housing advocates and economists believe the superheated home-sales market and high rents in large part are the result of a short supply.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In large galaxies, black holes spew out superheated jets of material that nearly reach the speed of light.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • An eager Hubbard even flew over the crater while the volcano was still active, nearly being sucked into the superheated caldera by a downdraft.
    — Ben Anderson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2012
  • At the limit of the black hole is its accretion disk—that bright orange-yellow swirl of superheated material that the black hole has pulled to its vicinity.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 May 2024

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