Example Sentences

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If your router’s vents are clogged with dust or pet hair, it will overheat more easily, throttling the processor and causing your connection to tank.

From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2022

Too many coverings can also increase the risk that a baby will overheat, an important consideration because temperature regulation is not fully developed in infants.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2018

A flood of new military spending will overheat the area’s economy.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2016

And oh, yeah, an intense virtual reality video game can draw so much power that the phone will overheat in 10 minutes.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2014

All frames, bobbin tubes, bobbin ends, and the like, must be most carefully slit, otherwise they will overheat.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various