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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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Neither one will put a cubic foot of gas in a New England furnace before the snow melts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Seiler placed them in a semi-sealed steel container with very little oxygen and heated them in a high-temperature furnace in his home laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In Pressure, Stagg is thrown into a high-stakes furnace of egos.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Once a book has been printed, all the letters used to make it are placed in a furnace and melted down for the next volume.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Feeling a pleased importance, Ranofer led the way across the sun-warmed pavement to an idle furnace.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Gas prices typically rise from autumn lows as temperatures drop and furnaces are fired up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In a US city once known for its steel industry, workers enjoy family outings beside retired, rust-streaked blast furnaces.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

In April last year, the government passed an emergency bill to take control of British Steel amid reports the then-owner Jingye was planning to switch off two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Instead Rome should define "how many electric furnaces are needed, what public investments are planned and -- consequently -- what level of employment must be guaranteed following the sale".

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various


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