: of, relating to, being, or characterized by manufacturing and especially heavy industry
smokestack industries
Examples of smokestack in a Sentence
Adjective
She invested in smokestack stocks.
Car manufacturing and other smokestack industries need to adapt to the global economy.
Recent Examples on the Web
Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Egged on by the Inflation Reduction Act, companies are rushing to find more ways to take the carbon that comes out of the smokestacks of the world and put it somewhere other than the air.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Paul also said that DTE Energy is also getting the site of the Trenton Channel power plant smokestacks — which were demolished earlier this month — ready for a new project around energy storage.
—Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
The last sputtering cough from Merrimack’s smokestacks will be the final breath of coal in New England.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
The 110,000-square-foot new multifamily building, situated on the southern edge of Factory 52 across from the historic and iconic smokestack, will feature an array of materials that pay homage to the site's history.
—The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
This year, city officials said, hotel room renovations, elevator upgrades, repair of the ship’s third smokestack and an expansion of the Sun Deck, which is used for special events such as weddings, are planned.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Trenton Channel power plant smokestacks are set to be blown up Friday, the new date announced on social media by the Grosse Ile Police Department.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
The other is a trio of 450-foot-tall smokestacks that were part of a power plant, which was built in the 1950s to service Pacific Gas and Electric’s power grid.
—Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Russ Wiles, azcentral, 2 Aug. 2019
The industry trend toward higher production and profits with lower employment started to run into serious trouble in the 1990s with the imposition of new environmental regulations against smokestack pollution that made coal more expensive to burn.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
Meanwhile, a young company in Switzerland called Climeworks was opening its first plant to capture CO2—not from relatively concentrated smokestack effluent, but from ambient air.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2017
Government and household consumption drove more than two thirds economic growth in the first quarter, highlighting the shift toward depending on services and away from smokestack sectors.
—Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
When companies have to pay for pollution, there’s less need for micromanaging laws requiring such items as smokestack scrubbers.
—Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2017
Noun
Andrew Morton stood in the sun on the smokestacks of a blast furnace the day the Francis Scott Key Bridge opened on March 23, 1977, watching the first cars cross the bridge.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Egged on by the Inflation Reduction Act, companies are rushing to find more ways to take the carbon that comes out of the smokestacks of the world and put it somewhere other than the air.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Paul also said that DTE Energy is also getting the site of the Trenton Channel power plant smokestacks — which were demolished earlier this month — ready for a new project around energy storage.
—Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
The last sputtering cough from Merrimack’s smokestacks will be the final breath of coal in New England.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
The 110,000-square-foot new multifamily building, situated on the southern edge of Factory 52 across from the historic and iconic smokestack, will feature an array of materials that pay homage to the site's history.
—The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
This year, city officials said, hotel room renovations, elevator upgrades, repair of the ship’s third smokestack and an expansion of the Sun Deck, which is used for special events such as weddings, are planned.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The Trenton Channel power plant smokestacks are set to be blown up Friday, the new date announced on social media by the Grosse Ile Police Department.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
The other is a trio of 450-foot-tall smokestacks that were part of a power plant, which was built in the 1950s to service Pacific Gas and Electric’s power grid.
—Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Adjective
Service companies dominate the list of Arizona's largest employers,with relatively few smokestack industries here, which helps explain why Arizona just received another so-so grade as a manufacturing center.
—Russ Wiles, azcentral, 2 Aug. 2019
The industry trend toward higher production and profits with lower employment started to run into serious trouble in the 1990s with the imposition of new environmental regulations against smokestack pollution that made coal more expensive to burn.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
Meanwhile, a young company in Switzerland called Climeworks was opening its first plant to capture CO2—not from relatively concentrated smokestack effluent, but from ambient air.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2017
Government and household consumption drove more than two thirds economic growth in the first quarter, highlighting the shift toward depending on services and away from smokestack sectors.
—Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
When companies have to pay for pollution, there’s less need for micromanaging laws requiring such items as smokestack scrubbers.
—Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2017
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“Smokestack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smokestack. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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