How to Use superheat in a Sentence
superheat
verb-
The plastic will trap the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, killing grass, weeds, weed seeds, etc.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019 -
And/or solarize to superheat the soil and kill both the grass and weed seeds.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021 -
Start now, so there is still enough sun and heat to superheat the soil to kill plants, weeds and seeds in the upper layer.
— Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017 -
Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022 -
Smother it with a 6-inch layer of woody mulch and/or solarize to superheat the soil, which kills the grass, weeds, soil pathogens and weed seeds.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022 -
Make sure to put a chopstick or toothpick inside the bowl—if not, the water can superheat and make the bowl explode!
— Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 18 Jan. 2018 -
Dolsot bibimbap takes the classic Korean all-in-one rice dish and superheats it in a stone bowl.
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017 -
When superheated cast iron meets shreds of potato skin embedded in the dough, the slight charring ignites one final flourish of barbecue brisket essence.
— Ali Bouzari, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018 -
Its magma reservoirs sit very close to the surface, feeding heat and gas into a shallow aquifer above it, superheating any water trapped in the rock, and pressurizing the surrounding sediment.
— Megan Molteni, Wired, 10 Dec. 2019 -
Normally, that boundary huddles too close to the star for astronomers to see it, but this particular star had a sudden burst of brightness that superheated its disk, obliterating ice further out than usual.
— Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 July 2016 -
Big guns like the Hubble Space Telescope could be enlisted to investigate further if astronomers find a dark stain left behind on Jupiter’s cloud tops—a sign of soot produced as the atmosphere superheated during the explosion.
— Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2016 -
Solar panels generate electrical power, which the vehicle then uses to generate microwaves, which superheat the water up to Sun-surface temperatures.
— Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019 -
The plastic will trap the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, killing grass, weeds, weed seeds, etc.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019 -
And/or solarize to superheat the soil and kill both the grass and weed seeds.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021 -
Start now, so there is still enough sun and heat to superheat the soil to kill plants, weeds and seeds in the upper layer.
— Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017 -
Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022 -
Smother it with a 6-inch layer of woody mulch and/or solarize to superheat the soil, which kills the grass, weeds, soil pathogens and weed seeds.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022 -
Make sure to put a chopstick or toothpick inside the bowl—if not, the water can superheat and make the bowl explode!
— Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 18 Jan. 2018 -
Dolsot bibimbap takes the classic Korean all-in-one rice dish and superheats it in a stone bowl.
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017 -
When superheated cast iron meets shreds of potato skin embedded in the dough, the slight charring ignites one final flourish of barbecue brisket essence.
— Ali Bouzari, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018 -
Its magma reservoirs sit very close to the surface, feeding heat and gas into a shallow aquifer above it, superheating any water trapped in the rock, and pressurizing the surrounding sediment.
— Megan Molteni, Wired, 10 Dec. 2019 -
Normally, that boundary huddles too close to the star for astronomers to see it, but this particular star had a sudden burst of brightness that superheated its disk, obliterating ice further out than usual.
— Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 July 2016 -
Big guns like the Hubble Space Telescope could be enlisted to investigate further if astronomers find a dark stain left behind on Jupiter’s cloud tops—a sign of soot produced as the atmosphere superheated during the explosion.
— Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2016 -
Solar panels generate electrical power, which the vehicle then uses to generate microwaves, which superheat the water up to Sun-surface temperatures.
— Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019
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