Example Sentences

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He warned me that just the other day a woman on a different crew had overheated from the sun, fainted and had to go to the hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

Laderer assumed that an engine had overheated, but as the crew pulled out of the station he saw signs of something far more disastrous.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2023

The NTSB’s preliminary report didn’t formally reach conclusions about the cause of the derailment but shed new light about the wheel bearing malfunction days after the agency indicated it had overheated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Sainz was hampered, he said, because he had overheated his tyres behind Leclerc.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2022

But it was the steam locomotive itself that had overheated the little girl’s imagination.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood