boiler

Example Sentences

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Quasar alleges the encampment damaged the boiler and created the crisis.

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

They decided they could not afford the increase, so as spring came, they switched the oil boiler off.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 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

Like a boiler about to blow, I leaned over the table.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys