Synonyms of smokestacks

smokestacks

noun

plural of smokestack

as in chimneys

a tall vertical structure (as on a factory, ship, etc.) for carrying smoke away

The skyline of the old factory town is dotted with smokestacks.

Related Words

• chimneys
• pipes
• tiles
• flues
• tubes
• lines
• ducts
• penstocks
• chimney stacks
• leaders
• conduits
• troughs
• channels
• pipings
• funnels
• waterspouts
• drainpipes
• hydrants
• standpipes
• waste pipes
• drains
• spouts
• stovepipes
• pipelines
• mains
• pipages

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of smokestacks

The ship's smokestacks and other elements have been preserved for the museum. — Laura Fay, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

And yet the borders tell a grittier story, with smokestacks and warehouses and, just 2 miles away, refinery flames and black smoke spewing from the Suncor Energy complex. — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026

At night, lights shine on the wreck, and flames will shoot from the smokestacks. — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Its skyline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hulking arrays of metal tubes and bright flames erupting from flares at petrochemical plants in the global plastics supply chain. — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

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

These modular reactors can eventually be connected directly to active factory smokestacks and local agricultural biorefineries. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026

These are the ports, pipelines, and oil refineries of Shandong province and its borderlands, where the hulking architecture of oil storage tanks and spindly profiles of smokestacks jut up from barren, coastal flatlands. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026