How to Use superheat in a Sentence
superheat
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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
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And/or solarize to superheat the soil and kill both the grass and weed seeds.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
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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
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Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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