How to use "steam" in a sentence

And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

Bizarrely, the unplowed trail had led them to a paved road; steam rose from it, and sections of the pavement were even dry.

The Explorer roared across the straightaway and careened up the slope beyond, through the tendrils of steam that rose from the black pavement.

Alexander peered anxiously through the sheeting snow into which the chopper moved like a blind man running full-steam into endless darkness

under the steam hammer.'

'Under the steam hammer! Please come quickly, Francois! I can't bear it much longer!'

Have you ever tried to explain to a sleepy police officer that your sister-in-law has just phoned to say she has killed your brother with a steam hammer?

More policemen were standing by the steam hammer, watching two men with a camera

It was originally a steam hammer, but everything is worked electrically now

She confessed to the murder of her husband and proved easily that she knew how to work the steam hammer

About his death, however, she would say nothing more than that she had killed him with the steam hammer

Helene, as I have said, had shown the commissaire that she knew how to operate the steam hammer

I simply and faithfully carried out his last wish by smashing his head and right arm under the steam hammer of his brother's factory.

In my hand was a page of explanations: what I had to know about the steam hammer

A violent explosion shook the air, and a column of water, steam, mud and broken metal shot far up into the sky

Thick clouds of steam were pouring from the wreckage, and through it I could see its long legs and tentacles moving in the water.

When for a moment I raised my head to breathe and throw the hair and water out of my eyes, the steam was rising in a white fog that hid the Martians completely

Thick black smoke was rising to mix with the steam from the river.

Usually, when it had done its work, the Martian cleared the air by blowing steam at it.

Steamships whistled and sent up clouds of steam, sails were let out and small boats rushed here and there

He held it pointing down, and a cloud of steam came up from the water as it hit the ship.

A flame rose up through the steam and then the Martian began to fall over

In another moment it had hit the sea, and a great amount of water and steam flew high in the air

Because rushing out beyond the smoke and steam came something long and black with flames coming from it.

A boiling cloud of steam hid everything again.

The steam stayed in the air for many minutes, hiding the third Martian and the coast

All this time the steamboat was moving steadily out to sea and away from the fight, and when at last the steam cleared, the black cloud got in the way and they could see nothing of either the Thunder Child or the third Martian

A Martian walked across the fields at about midday, killing the stuff with steam