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Recent Examples of flueMake 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 But Melissa outwits them all and knocks everyone out by closing the fireplace flue.—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for flue
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.
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Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
28 Sep. 2025
In the 1700’s a factory smokestack in England was spewing smoking ashes onto a neighboring property.
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Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
Following Harriett's death, the boy began experiencing strange happenings — hearing scratching in the wall, seeing water mysteriously dripping from pipes and walls, and most scary of all, feeling his bed moving.
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Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
When that liquid becomes warm, it’s then sent through pipes to a facility that cools the liquid and sends it back to the data centers.
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