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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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"There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

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

Among the first remnants of the building to be dismantled is a 'floating' chimney stack still attached to the adjoining block, several storeys above ground.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

And Mrs. Bessermann and Cesia baked, which made Max angry, because what were we supposed to tell Mrs. Krajewska or the foul SS man, Ernst, when they saw the smoke coming from the chimney?

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The board also clarified it would not require the removal of trees, although limbs would need to be trimmed away from roofs and chimneys.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

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

She made it her duty to keep the lamps filled and their chimneys clean.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema

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 T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

Then came a fine square, chimneyed house with sherry-glass-shaped elm-trees about it.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

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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