How to Use superheat in a Sentence

superheat

verb
  • And/or solarize to superheat the soil and kill both the grass and weed seeds.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The plastic will trap the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, killing grass, weeds, weed seeds, etc.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
  • Start now, so there is still enough sun and heat to superheat the soil to kill plants, weeds and seeds in the upper layer.
    — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Make sure to put a chopstick or toothpick inside the bowl—if not, the water can superheat and make the bowl explode!
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Dolsot bibimbap takes the classic Korean all-in-one rice dish and superheats it in a stone bowl.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Smother it with a 6-inch layer of woody mulch and/or solarize to superheat the soil, which kills the grass, weeds, soil pathogens and weed seeds.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The reverse shock wave will continue to superheat the cool iron atoms, eventually reaching the remnant’s core sometime in the next few hundred years.
    — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2014
  • Its magma reservoirs sit very close to the surface, feeding heat and gas into a shallow aquifer above it, superheating any water trapped in the rock, and pressurizing the surrounding sediment.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Normally, that boundary huddles too close to the star for astronomers to see it, but this particular star had a sudden burst of brightness that superheated its disk, obliterating ice further out than usual.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 July 2016
  • Magma deep within Earth’s internal plumbing system superheats groundwater, eventually forcing it to the surface.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Solar panels generate electrical power, which the vehicle then uses to generate microwaves, which superheat the water up to Sun-surface temperatures.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019
  • National Ignition facility, scientists use lasers to help superheat and compress tiny pellets containing hydrogen atoms.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Big guns like the Hubble Space Telescope could be enlisted to investigate further if astronomers find a dark stain left behind on Jupiter’s cloud tops—a sign of soot produced as the atmosphere superheated during the explosion.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2016

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