steam-heated
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of steam-heated
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The steam-heated rooms can keep their temperature safely elevated without things like heat lamps, which can be dangerous.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2018
Kroll had rented space in a steam-heated, cockroach-infested building downtown before, so the new office felt palatial by comparison.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
“My plans included transferring to Columbia, but secretly I wanted to experience at first hand the steam-heated life of poetry and some other, seemingly connected fantasies of accelerated living,” he wrote in his autobiographical essay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2016
It has replaced the scrapped Kulluk with the Pioneer, an eight-legged platform with steam-heated walkways and a derrick swaddled in sheets of metal insulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2015
They racked their oars, hung their rowing clothes up to dry in a steam-heated locker in the shell house, dressed, and began the long trudge back up the hill to campus.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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