How to Use furnace in a Sentence

furnace

noun
  • The victim threw the weapon under the furnace, but the man picked it up.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • If the United States is a melting pot, this is the furnace.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The time to learn that your furnace needs repair is not during the first cold snap.
    Regina Cole, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The furnace is set to crank up even more in Alabama over the next few days.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 27 June 2023
  • Most of the living people with links to the furnace reside in the United States.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • First, iron sand is drawn from the Earth and heated using both fire and air in a furnace known as a tatara.
    Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The door opened to a narrow passage that led to a small space behind the furnace and the hot water heater.
    Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The downside of the tradeoffs is that the life of a home extends far beyond the life of a furnace and water heater.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The noise-making kitchen, laundry room and a workshop for the water heater and furnace were on one side of the house.
    oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2022
  • On May 25, the building burned to the ground because of an overheated furnace.
    Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • Yet the genre blend is pure Beck, and his infectious energy was the furnace behind all of the songs.
    William Earl, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There were golf clubs and guitars and, somehow, furnaces.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Suddenly a winter storm kills the furnace’s heat and bangs the cabin’s door open.
    Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The front door of the home leads directly from the driveway into the house, which has two bedrooms, a bathroom and a furnace room on the first floor.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The first level is above ground with a two-car garage, a furnace/utility room, and the cellar itself.
    Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2022
  • All the 49ers could do was redirect their pain into the furnace, as athletes do.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The home’s old diesel furnace was loud and inefficient.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • With 70% of US steel needs now met by scrap steel fed through electric arc furnaces, the heyday of iron ore shipments is gone.
    Michael Barnard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Tata, which is based in India, wants to replace the blast furnaces and other parts of the plant dating to the 1950s with one of the world’s largest electric arc furnaces.
    Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • For now, anyway, the team appears to be galvanized by its own furnace of freak-dom.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 21 July 2022
  • In 2023 heat pumps outsold gas furnaces in the United States for the second year running, a climate win.
    Cara Buckley, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • At the mouth of a furnace, colorful glass rods lined up on the head of a shovel were melting together.
    Chantel Tattoli, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • His thyroid was in overdrive, a caloric furnace burning too hot.
    Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2022
  • Price was more workmanlike, coming out of the furnace of L.A.’s inner-city gyms.
    Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The site also previously housed a plant that produced the small furnaces used to melt the lead in Linotype machines.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2023
  • Attach a furnace filter to a box fan with duct tape (find DIY instructions here).
    Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 8 June 2023
  • The glass furnace can’t be switched off entirely because that could destroy it.
    John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Four solar panels on top of tallest part of the garage heat all the domestic water — including the pool — and furnaces.
    Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Just saying, dealerships couldn't get away with it if consumers didn't feed the furnace.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 29 Dec. 2022
  • When complete, the plant will use electric furnaces to mold scrap steel into new products.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023

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