chimney
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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
An aerial photograph of the site obtained by Reuters news agency appears to show a broken and collapsed chimney.
From BBC ● 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
In the center of the clearing sat a hut with smoke wafting out of the chimney.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
The chimneys of the power plant dominate the skyline, pumping plumes of ash and smoke.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
It whistled, hummed, throbbed, boomed in the chimneys.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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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Then came a fine square, chimneyed house with sherry-glass-shaped elm-trees about it.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur
By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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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