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Recent Examples of chimney
Open burning, defined as burning materials outdoors where smoke goes directly into the air without passing through a chimney or stack (such as in a bonfire or fire pit), is allowed in Tennessee.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
With its cathedral ceiling and a tall, red chimney, the house on 79th Avenue hardly stands out in a quiet, working-class East Oakland neighborhood where residents tend to look out for one another.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Flashes of hot pink and green popped against the remains of a chimney not far from where construction trucks rumble down the streets.
—Jill Cowan, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Install chimney caps to keep raccoons out.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
With its cathedral ceiling and a tall, red chimney, the house on 79th Avenue hardly stands out in a quiet, working-class East Oakland neighborhood where residents tend to look out for one another.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Flashes of hot pink and green popped against the remains of a chimney not far from where construction trucks rumble down the streets.
—Jill Cowan, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Install chimney caps to keep raccoons out.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chimney
Noun
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Make sure the fireplace flue is open before lighting it.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2025
Noun
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As environmental regulations limit the toxic output from smokestacks and tail pipes, particulate matter that could be absorbing or blocking incoming sunlight is being eliminated, leading to gradually warmer oceans.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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On a macro scale, that effect has been well-documented by photographers, with aerial shots of waterways clogged with plastic, the scars on barren land from deforestation and countless smokestacks spewing pollution into the air.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The music thumped away, though at reduced volume, the bats performed their acrobatics over the pool, the hash pipe glowed, people began to yawn.—
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Zajicek, signed in the offseason, had thus far played all his hockey in his native Czechia but looked right at home between the pipes for the B’s.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s also a small but significant structural design change with a front brake cooling duct being added for more reliable operation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the final scene, Slightly enters the lab and drags Arthur's body into an air duct, continuing his mission to get Morrow a Xenomorph.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Chimney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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