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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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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

Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

One struck the chimney of a power plant in Auvere, Estonia, while another exploded in the southern Kraslava region of Latvia.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

The chimney, says Akashi, is “a kind of restless object. It only functions with a home.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

The pixies scooped up the bits of wool around the wheel, laughing their tinkly giggles, and flew up the chimney.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

Homeowners would need to keep any branches one foot away from the walls, five feet above the roof and 10 feet from chimneys.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

They even made a game out of it; whoever swept the most chimneys got first pick from the dactyl squad and could decide which way they headed next.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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

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

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

From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema

But never before had Bobby found, above such a rustic brook, a many chimneyed and gabled house of stone, set in a walled garden and swathed in trees.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

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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