Example Sentences

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The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

GX13+1 shines brightly in X-rays that come from an accretion disk of superheated material spiraling inward and striking the star's surface.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

The rhetoric around the two astronauts became superheated when Dutch astronaut Andreas Mogensen accused Musk of lying about the mission.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025

A wall of flames over 300 feet tall by Smith’s estimate crested the ridge, roaring with the sound of a jet engine and blasting the resort with superheated wind and debris.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2024

Southern venti swirled through the hall in clouds of red dust and superheated air.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan