steam
noun
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
steams
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present tense formof steam (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The emptied vessel then returns to Iran—or at least used to, before the blockade—while the newly laden one steams on to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Norris also maintained other income steams, including a long-running role as a pitchman for the Total Gym line of exercise equipment, promoting his fitness regimen well into his 80s.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
As Stuart Broad steams into bowl, watched studiously by Stokes and McCullum, a less familiar member of England's camp looks on from behind the nets.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
“I am not a teacher,” Hardwick steams, “I am a writer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
