“You may also notice clouds of steam magically rising from out of the ground around the city and wonder what is going on.”

“He failed because he ran out of steam, just as his speech ran out of steam and fizzled to a halt in the House this morning.”

“With teachers at the throttle, this grant will provide the steam to help our students maneuver the hills and curves in their journey to learn mathematics.”

“I obtained a job as a steamfitter helper with a plumbing and steamfitting union shop.”

“During this portion of the program they received hands-on experience in welding, plumbing, pipefitting, steamfitting and related trades.”

“Steamfitting can be a dangerous task, because the steam is under great pressure.”

“Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut.”

“When I worked in the South as a roughneck on oil rigs and as a steamfitter, I saw men like Walt get hung out to dry.”

“Because John traveled for his work as a steamfitter, Eliza apparently experienced life as a grass widow more than once.”

“Blake's elbow was on the window sill and his left shoe was on the guard above the steampipe.”

“Only her speed and manoeuvring capacity had suffered considerably owing to a steampipe having been hit.”

“Do you remember carrying me from the number seven culvert clean back to the station after the steampipe broke?”

“Mr. Hamelin made the shift from elegant Classicism to Romantic steaminess easily, yet his approach to the two composers had qualities in common.”

“In fact, steaminess was the driving force of King's latest project.”

“That day, our house smelled the way old houses do in July, when a certain steaminess invades the carpets and any breeze ushers in just enough of an aroma to give the air the barely noticeable tang of summer.”