boiler

Example Sentences

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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Since the stone age, people have typically kept themselves warm by burning things - wood or coal on a fire, or oil or gas in a boiler.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Minutes later, Campbell is spotted wearing a boiler suit going out the same door.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

The manager of the boiler and turbine department and a half-dozen staff members had donned body armor and stayed in the control room to monitor the equipment during the attack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

When a train heaved across it, the black steam engine swollen to bursting like the boiler at the laundry, the birds flew up like Halloween.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston