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Recent Examples of flue
Excavators also found the remnants of Roman building materials, including ceramic roofing, painted wall plaster and box flue tiles.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
Make sure the fireplace flue is open before lighting it.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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
To end up with flue gas that’s almost exclusively CO2 and water, their cycle would have to inhale 95 percent pure oxygen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
Make sure the fireplace flue is open before lighting it.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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
To end up with flue gas that’s almost exclusively CO2 and water, their cycle would have to inhale 95 percent pure oxygen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flue
Noun
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Seal Gaps Caulk any cracks or gaps in siding or near doors and windows, and seal up any cracks or gaps around utility pipes, under eaves, or around the chimney.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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If the fireplace is never used, plug and seal the chimney flue.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The element that sets the 95-suite 679-foot ship apart is its signature Funnel Suite, reminiscent of the smokestacks of early-20th-century ocean liners.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
28 Sep. 2025
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In the 1700’s a factory smokestack in England was spewing smoking ashes onto a neighboring property.—
Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Glandular tissue — the part made of milk ducts and supportive structures — responds to hormones.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Huguley was taken to a baseball field, duct-taped to a bench, doused in gasoline and lit on fire, according to state authorities.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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But now, without improved results between the pipes, the Atlantic Division win the Leafs earned last season feels improbable.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Spoon or pipe yolk mixture into egg white halves.—
Maddy Bendgen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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