chimney
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That is a car payment, and it leaves through the chimney.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
An AFP team saw a chimney spewing out black smoke at the site, which in places resembles a black lunar landscape, in March 2025.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
An aerial photograph of the site obtained by Reuters news agency appears to show a broken and collapsed chimney.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Magdalys just shook her head as she climbed into the chimney.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
The board also clarified it would not require the removal of trees, although limbs would need to be trimmed away from roofs and chimneys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
His sculptures, composed of stacked forms and glazed in natural colors, bring to mind chimneys, duct work and totem poles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“We’ve already swept all the chimneys on this block.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
He started at Bunnahabhain in 1978, when the 36 distillery workers all lived in the quaint, chimneyed houses clustered around the distillery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old red-brick, heavily chimneyed, and gabled buildings, with their large windows divided by bold mullions and transoms, and their simple noble outlines, are familiar to us all, and so are their characteristic features.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
O who would stay in the chimneyed town Where brooks are never seen?
From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema
Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
For the next four hours, All wormed and squirmed his way toward the surface, wedging himself between the walls, chimneying diagonally toward the surface.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2019
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