How to Use superheated in a Sentence

superheated

adjective
  • Once the lava drops, rocks that had been superheated could fall into the lava tube.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • Use caution when stirring the bowls and handling them as the gels can become superheated.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2012
  • 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 superheated gas is then cooled, forming solid pellets about the size of arborio rice.
    — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and glows in X-rays.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Storms like these are caused when the sun emits superheated plasma, according to Travel + Leisure.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Then a monitor shows an eerie pulsing video of the inside of the device as a powerful beam blasts into superheated gas known as a plasma.
    — New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But the historic fate of the city, and many of its residents, was sealed hours later with the arrival of pyroclastic flows, fast-moving, superheated clouds of gas and dust.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
  • Marzocchi says the data suggest that, for now, the tremors are more the result of gases pushing superheated water up through the earth, rather than magma rising.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
  • This air fryer uses superheated air to cook food at 400°F, producing crispy results with little to no oil.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Now, process heat from NuScale’s module is heating water and then zapping the hydrogen out of the superheated steam.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 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, 26 May 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, 29 June 2017
  • The idea is that the head of a superheated plume of mantle rock rises, decompresses, melts, and triggers massive amounts of magma generation in the crust, be that on land or on the seafloor.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 15 July 2019
  • Burton-Johnson tells Metcalfe that in most cases the steam and superheated gases that power volcanic eruptions isn’t enough to keep rock molten at the surface.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 July 2019
  • Engineers determined that a carbon composite insulator, or heat shield, inside the nozzle failed to protect the nozzle's metallic structure from the superheated exhaust coming from the booster.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Flashover typically causes severe burns, particularly on the face, beck and upper limbs, often combined with critical inhalation injures from radiant heat and superheated gases.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026

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