chimney

Example Sentences

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The researchers describe the newfound vents as “spectacular high-temperature sulfide chimneys.”

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He and his men were struggling to clean out the barrel of their mud-encrusted howitzer with a long metal brush like a chimney sweep.

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Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the agency’s Weather Prediction Center, likened the setup to a chimney of moisture being continually replenished.

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Mr. Jaffee replied that he had killed her and was stuffing her in the chimney.

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The tug’s tilting chimney rhymes with the lean of the lamppost, and both are counteracted by the scattered silhouettes of women and children leaning against the iron-paling fence.

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