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Recent Examples of chimney
Each Josephine tulip champagne glass is mouth-blown and features a wide surface area to enhance flavors and a narrow chimney to ensure a long-lasting mousse.
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Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2025
Some were fortunate to already be in Rome on trips scheduled long before white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on May 8, signaling the papal conclave had chosen a new pope.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Check for gaps where the chimney meets the house, and make sure chimney openings are covered properly.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
Chinese agencies have blown chemical smoke into clouds with rockets, planes, drones and chimneys to provoke snowfall over glaciers on the Tibetan plateau.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2025
Some were fortunate to already be in Rome on trips scheduled long before white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on May 8, signaling the papal conclave had chosen a new pope.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Check for gaps where the chimney meets the house, and make sure chimney openings are covered properly.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
Chinese agencies have blown chemical smoke into clouds with rockets, planes, drones and chimneys to provoke snowfall over glaciers on the Tibetan plateau.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 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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This is because that process requires a substantial amount of energy to heat, cool, and pump solvents that absorb CO2 from the flue gases.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Dec. 2017
Noun
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At Farm Central, the Seabrook headquarters, a brick smokestack, built by Kelly Brickworks in Philadelphia, with the name SEABROOK painted vertically, rose 225 feet in the air.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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None deny minority neighborhoods on the South and West sides suffer more from the dirty air, water and soil that historically came from steel mills, smokestacks and truck traffic.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Dams, straightening, dredging, channelizing, and an unseen network of pipes and drains and overflow tunnels have nearly eliminated the river’s likelihood of overflowing its banks and destroying businesses downtown.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Plus, all that hair can run down your drain, clogging pipes.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Sleep stations — McClain, Ayers, and Onishi cleaned out the air ducts leading into their crew quarters in the Harmony module.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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If the calculation is wrong, everything downstream—equipment selection, duct sizing, airflow balancing—will also be off.—
Brynn Cooksey,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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“Chimney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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