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Recent Examples of flue
Make sure the fireplace flue is open before lighting it.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flue
Noun
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The image shows that the property has nearly been engulfed by the ground below, while steam appeared from its chimney.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The ashes from the crematorium chimney covered the streets, sooted the rain, dirtied the snow, damaged the crops, infected every body.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 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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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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Ductal carcinoma tumors grow outside milk ducts, the tubes that connect the glands to the nipple.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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