Sentence examples for waves of steam from inspiring English sources

Two coffee mugs, complete with waves of steam wafting up above them, were illustrated on the interior of the card.

They move like human-sized shadows, dancing in the blurry waves of steam that pour from the cooling vents.

"They took me into a rather large shed as part of our training, and you opened the doors and were assailed by this wave of steam," he said.

We are the beneficiaries of two centuries of enormous waves of change: steam engines, railways, the telegraph, electricity, automobiles, aeroplanes, chemical industries, modern medicine, information technology and, more recently, the digital revolution, robotics, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies.

I was on the shaking trail of the trembling mountain, shaking with fear, trembling with terror, looking down 2000 feet, as lava just to my left flowed swiftly down to the sea below, making for white billows of waves and steam.

Since the middle of the 18th century, there have been successive waves of technical progress: coal and steam, railways and the internal combustion engine at the end of the 19th century; the mid-20th-century age of consumer durables and commercial air travel.

I leaned out of the carriage window shouting goodbye and waving until he disappeared in a cloud of steam.

In later works, a line of destroyers plows through waves, and steam shovels strip mine for coal.

This so-called fourth wave of feminism is a young wave, untempered by previous generations (partly because they ran out of steam after the last national women's liberation movement conference of 1978 in Birmingham).

The most recent wave of closures gathered steam after the financial crisis in 2008, as banks of all sizes staggered under the weight of bad home loans.

The Japanese electricians who bravely strung wires this week to all six reactor buildings at a stricken nuclear power plant succeeded despite waves of heat and blasts of radioactive steam.