chimney
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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
At the time, Nasa described pyrocumulonimbus as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds, external" as they funnelled a smoke-like chimney into the earth's atmosphere while hurling thunderbolts, wind and rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
There was a large fireplace in the dining-room and she now set about wedging the cage up the chimney and out of sight.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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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
“Good. We have contacts in a building down on Lispenard that can set you up to sweep some chimneys tomorrow morning. Who will join her?”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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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
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Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
But never before had Bobby found, above such a rustic brook, a many chimneyed and gabled house of stone, set in a walled garden and swathed in trees.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
O who would stay in the chimneyed town Where brooks are never seen?
From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema
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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