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chimney

noun

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as in flue

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Recent Examples of chimney Place vent covers or protective barriers along your chimney or vents to keep them out. — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 20 July 2026 Light coals using lighter fluid, an electric starter, or a chimney starter. — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026 Human remains were found in the chimney of a public school in Queens, New York, on Tuesday morning while officials were investigating a foul odor, according to police. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026 There are no puffs of smoke coming from the chimney in Moscow, not yet anyway. — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for chimney

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Ray is also an alcoholic, hiding bottles in a toilet tank, an attic, a fireplace flue, even filling a soda bottle with booze for his workout.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Chinese media described the process as a closed system in which flue gas enters one end of the pipeline and fertiliser emerges from the other.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026

Definition of flue

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Despite the installation of a smoke filtration system, preliminary testing found that emissions from its boiler smokestacks exceeded Cambodia’s legal limits.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
If that process were adapted to store CO2 in the earth forever, then billions of tons of carbon emissions could, in theory, be captured from smokestacks and buried.

— Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026

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Of course, as anyone with a baby (or who’s spent time anywhere near a baby) can tell you, a kid doesn’t have to shoot spit into your milk ducts to expose you to their germs.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 29 July 2026
Toyota also makes extensive mention of the GRMN’s aero, which includes a hood duct, fender ducts, front side spoilers, and the aforementioned trick rear wing.

— Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 29 July 2026

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