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Workers at its Helsinki plant formerly forged steel blades by hand in 2,700-degree furnaces, repetitive and dangerous work that was slow and costly. — William Wilkes, WSJ, "How the World’s Biggest Companies Are Fine-Tuning the Robot Revolution," 14 May 2018 Fire officials were called to the scene in southern San Diego County just after noon, and helped shut the door of the furnace, which had been cremating a body at the time. — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, "Crematorium mishap shoots plume of human ashes into air, San Diego officials say | The Sacramento Bee," 24 May 2018 When the weather turns cool, the heat pump produces heat and uses the furnace to blow warm air throughout the house. — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, "How a Heat Pump Works," 14 Jan. 2019 Then, right before the team of six leaves for the day, the furnace is emptied and the rolls are left to cool overnight. — Amy Verner, Vogue, "Vogue Got an Exclusive Tour of Chanel’s Ateliers While Tonight’s Métiers d’Art Collection Was Being Made," 5 Dec. 2018 Our headphones are about to change dramatically, and Microsoft just put an accelerant into the furnace of change with its new Surface Headphones. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "The headphone wars have begun," 3 Oct. 2018 Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky. — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, "Top stories: HPV vaccine debate, 2000-year-old pollution, and a lawmaker’s views on sea level rise," 18 May 2018 This torch is used as the heat source for their DIY metal melting furnace. — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, "Watch How Easy It Is to Build a Jet Propane Torch," 11 July 2016 An overworked furnace can also experience mechanical failures. — Wilson Weaver, chicagotribune.com, "3 home improvement issues you should never ignore," 9 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'furnace.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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