How to Use steam engine in a Sentence

steam engine

noun

• The steam engine, which dates to 1898, pulled two of the Disney cars.
  — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• Kester has a ⅓-scale model of a 110-horse Case steam engine from the teens of the last century.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• For one thing, the 1906 steam engine was difficult to keep.
  — Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
• Halfway through the trip, passengers will have the chance to exit the train and take photos of the steam engine.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022
• The head and torso of the android, which is powered by a steam engine, takes the form of a Black man pulling a cart, a replacement for a draft horse.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
• At first, steam engines weren’t good for much more than pumping water.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019
• Think of the bicycle, or the steam engine, or glass—all simple and useful enough to be widely copied once they were known.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
• Humans have gone from their feet to bicycles, from the steam engine to the jet plane, always looking to boost their miles per hour.
  — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
• What do timepieces have in common with hulking gas and steam engines?
  — Irene Lechowitzky, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The car aficionado and star of Jay Leno's Garage was working on a steam engine underneath a car in his garage around 12:30 p.m. when the blaze broke out.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• In 1851, the Free Press bought a steam engine to power the paper's printing press, which is dubbed Peggy Ann for reasons now long lost.
  — Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
• The breakthrough was the improved steam engine of 1776, which could use coal to pump out the flooded mines, greatly extending the reach of British miners.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• The world's largest steam engine stopped in Altoona at 1 p.m. Tuesday for an extended stay.
  — Alexa Buechler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2019
• Their authentic steam engine train is over 110 years old.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
• Something was going on well before the invention of the steam engine.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Vintage steam engines of all makes and models, belching forth smoke and sparks galore.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• This expert working of metal is traced back to James Watt and his development of the steam engine.
  — Roma Agrawal, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Think back to when the steam engine was first deployed and factories were created.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• The sculpture proclaimed that the three greatest inventions of the previous 500 years were the steam engine, the electric telegraph and what?
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Originally built way back in 1923, the Flying Scotsman is one of the world's most famous steam engines.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2016
• Historic train ride on the LM&M Railroad behind a working steam engine.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2019
• People were being enslaved as never before, to the steam engine and the clockwork mechanisms of the world.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• The update from Allen comes less than a week after Leno, 72, was working on a steam engine underneath a car in his garage when a fire began.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
• Nye: People like to say around the year 1750; this is when James Watt, who was a mechanical engineer, got a steam engine that worked very well.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
• Riders will enjoy a free 15-minute ride on a miniature steam engine courtesy of the Houston Area Live Steamers.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 9 Sep. 2022
• Which changed the world more, steam engines or computers, is debatable.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• The movie is set in 1936, and follows a plucky group of residents of a small desert town who set out to build a steam engine following the closure of the mine that was the economic driver of the town.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
• The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Visitors will be able to climb aboard 745 to blow her whistle and see how a real steam engine operates.
  — NOLA.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The sight of a steam engine moving through the city served as a reminder of a time when these mechanical wonders traversed the city, pulling freight and passengers.
  — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024