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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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"There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Multiple people were also believed to be unaccounted for at a factory in Yatsushiro city where the tip of a chimney fell down, NHK reported, citing sources.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

But in compensation for that freedom, his chimney anchored the house as firmly to the earth as the most ancient of living trees.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

"The house wasn't there, it was just bits of bricks and a chimney."

From BBC Apr. 4, 2026

“Hark!” said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; “was that great guns, Joe?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

And they are hanging out everywhere: radio towers, power substations, chimneys, old barns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 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

Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his village beneath the towering chimneys of a coal‑fired power plant in southern Turkey.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

In the space of four days, a house sixty feet long and eighteen feet wide was erected, complete with two chimneys.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

O who would stay in the chimneyed town Where brooks are never seen?

From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema

Over against the west, a little to the north, the gray heavens were visible—a lightning seemed to run over them—a ghastly red lightning—sharply silhouetting the chimneyed housetops.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Then came a fine square, chimneyed house with sherry-glass-shaped elm-trees about it.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

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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