Illustration: At the pressing station of a Japanese neighborhood dry cleaner, a worker holds a steam iron just above a wrinkled jacket sleeve. A distinct plume emerges from the soleplate and curls across the cloth, while tiny moisture beads cling to the nearby metal rest.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

スチーム

suchiimu

steam

Example sentences

  1. スチームショベルは片方かたほうに三階建さんかいだて、もう片方かたほうに四階建よんかいだての地下ちかを掘ほりました。

    The steam shovels dug down three stories on one side and four stories on the other side.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 「スチームアイロンを買かおうか悩なやみ中ちゅう。どう思おもう？っていうか、買かって！」「やだ。自分じぶんで買かいな」

    "I’m wondering whether I should buy a steam iron, what do you think? Or should I say, buy me one!" "No. Buy one yourself."

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. かつてはロードローラーは馬うまが曳ひいていたが、蒸気機関じょうききかんの発明はつめいにより、スチームローラーが現あらわれた。

    Horses used to pull road-rollers, but the steamroller arrived with the invention of the steam engine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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