boiler
Example Sentences
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Once they lowered engines, boilers or heavy cargoes like steam locomotives into the belllies of ships.
From BBC
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.
To cool that steam and return it to the boilers, vast amounts of seawater are needed.
From BBC
“You got to put them where it’s hot, and this shed gets like a boiler,” Junior explained as he plunged his hand into the bucket and ever so gently pulled out an egg.
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She led me to the service staircase, down past the alteration room, into the boiler room.
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