chimney
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At the time, Nasa described pyrocumulonimbus as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds, external" as they funnelled a smoke-like chimney into the earth's atmosphere while hurling thunderbolts, wind and rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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 patch of sky above the chimney tops glowed orange-red.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
His sculptures, composed of stacked forms and glazed in natural colors, bring to mind chimneys, duct work and totem poles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
She added: "The plant's chimneys are still standing, and so are we."
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Liyana could make out letters in Arabic by now—ones that looked like chimneys or fluted edges, but she couldn’t really make out words yet.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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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
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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 Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse
Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.
From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
The old red-brick, heavily chimneyed, and gabled buildings, with their large windows divided by bold mullions and transoms, and their simple noble outlines, are familiar to us all, and so are their characteristic features.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
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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