boiler

Example Sentences

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The property’s boiler shot enormous pressure through the complex’s 60-year-old pipes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Across the UK, 1.5m homes are heated by oil, usually a kind of kerosene burned in a boiler to heat water for radiators and hot water.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

This winter, he and his wife switched it off and went back to their gas boiler, which they had kept as a backup.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

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

We walk into an old boiler room with machinery that emerges from the darkness so suddenly I hit it with my knees and elbows.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth