steamed up
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"Looking back, the inside of the car had steamed up," said Ms Gwyn.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023
They have muddled our words, eclipsed our facial expressions, steamed up our glasses and left us with sweaty chins.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Her Christmas bonus was missing, and the bathroom was steamed up as if someone had just taken a shower.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2020
Guiding the ship past Confederate forts and issuing checkpoint signals, Smalls steamed up the Cooper River, stopping at a wharf to pick up his wife, child and his crew’s families.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016
The fogs slowly gathered together and steamed up into a huge umbrella of cloud: it must have been a mile high.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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