How to Use overheated in a Sentence

overheated

adjective
  • She worked in a stuffy, overheated office.
  • The market for new houses is overheated.
  • The discussion was getting overheated.
  • The cause of the fire appears to be a overheated lawn mower.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2022
  • The drafty Bradley Center with its icy spots on the court, the overheated and cramped locker room for the home team.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Then, as the overheated art market of the eighties cooled off, he was dropped.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In the overheated sample of a 60-game season, that’s cause for alarm.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
  • On May 25, the building burned to the ground because of an overheated furnace.
    Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • In the overheated atmosphere of the Cold War, anything could tip the scales—even a poem.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Keep a close watch on overheated kids, seniors and pets.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • Well that’s a little bit of an overheated way of saying it.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The incident was likely caused by an overheated wheel bearing, which sparked fire and caused the train to go off the track, the NTSB found.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • An explosion heard on video may have been caused by an overheated aerosol can, the chief said.
    Celina Tebor, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Managers are allowed to get overheated and put on crazy displays on the field.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • What’s more, the refreshing mist feels so good on my overheated skin.
    Andie Kanaras, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023
  • The group also rescues lots of overheated dogs each year.
    Marie Fazio New York Times, Star Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020
  • And that was before the overheated 2020 election campaign and the anger over its outcome.
    David Bauder, Chron, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The Fed is expected to raise rates even more over the next year in an attempt to cool the overheated economy.
    Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • Redfin is predicting that the frothy, overheated market will simmer down a great deal by the end of next year.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Doing so limits the damage to overheated organs, and can save the dog’s life.
    New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • The dynamic tends to lead to a more overheated discourse.
    Alvin Chang, Vox, 30 May 2018
  • Sweaty, overheated baby me would have gone nuts for the Swimply app, but lucky for her, sweaty adult me is already tapped in.
    Erica Cheng, Chron, 22 Sep. 2021
  • An overheated wheel bearing appears to have been the cause of the derailment, which involved 38 rail cars, the NTSB has said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • Ice Ice Baby Ice down your overheated body with snow cones and shaved ice goodies.
    Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2017
  • The couple then drugged Grace, bound and gagged her, and left her in the overheated attic to die, authorities said.
    Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Of course, the real arcades were often dark, cramped, and sweaty, with the odor of overheated circuitry.
    Michael J. Seidlinger, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The overheated rhetoric is based on the misconception that 5G heralds a new era of services for end-users.
    Kevin Werbach For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Officials hope to film the core’s bottom to find out how overheated fuel dripped there in 2011.
    Mari Yamaguchi, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Private banks and wealth managers say their clients have been reducing their stock holdings for over a year as part of a broader shift from public to private markets in light of recent concerns about an overheated tech sector.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
  • California is not the only state with overheated prisoners.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 24 July 2024

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