How to Use furnace in a Sentence

furnace

noun

• The victim threw the weapon under the furnace, but the man picked it up.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 June 2022
• Steve chopped wood for the stove and shoveled coal for the furnace.
  — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• It is stored in a jar of salt in the warmth of the furnace room for preservation.
  — Meagan Flynn, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2019
• The less time the furnace is on, the lower your heating bill will be.
  — Kaylee Staral, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2021
• The children reach into the furnace, but the light is still slipping to the floor.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• If the United States is a melting pot, this is the furnace.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• Sweat poured down my body as if in a sauna at full furnace.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
• 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, 5 Dec. 2018
• The time to learn that your furnace needs repair is not during the first cold snap.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• The furnace is set to crank up even more in Alabama over the next few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 27 June 2023
• Inside, a fire in the wood-burning furnace has taken the chill out of the room.
  — Timothy Ivy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• Most of the living people with links to the furnace reside in the United States.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The irony is that there is plenty of energy in the furnace.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The arrow on the filter should point toward the furnace.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• There is its furnace; there are the ducts that carried hot air under the floors.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• An hour later, the blast-furnace sun boils all color from the world.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2020
• Turn off the furnace and water heater and turn on exhaust fans.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 20 Nov. 2018
• When the smelters smashed the furnace and the molten slag flowed out, what remained were precious lumps of copper.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• This pair is safe to use for the oven, grill, fireplace, furnace, and stove, among others.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 25 May 2021
• First, iron sand is drawn from the Earth and heated using both fire and air in a furnace known as a tatara.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
• Chen's job was to cart wagons full of coal and ash to and from the factory's furnace.
  — Mara Hvistendahl, Wired, 18 May 2020
• The door opened to a narrow passage that led to a small space behind the furnace and the hot water heater.
  — Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The foundation has a crack, there’s no furnace and the pipe fittings have been stolen.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2021
• The downside of the tradeoffs is that the life of a home extends far beyond the life of a furnace and water heater.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• The noise-making kitchen, laundry room and a workshop for the water heater and furnace were on one side of the house.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2022
• The furnace broke, and, amazingly, a heating tech showed up the very next day.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Heat pump sales are already outpacing the sale of gas furnaces in the US.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• Out of the furnace comes liquid copper, alight with green fire.
  — Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
• The costs of converting to electric furnaces were estimated at £2 billion or more.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
• There’s also evidence that the ship’s engineers left the boilers on, shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep electricity running.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025