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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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That is a car payment, and it leaves through the chimney.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 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

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

In about an hour the forest began to thin, and Robin could see the blue smoke coming from the cotters’ chimney pots.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

The Cappadocia region attracts tourists from around the world, who want to see the ancient fairy chimneys - tall, cone-shaped rock formations that are created by volcanic activity.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

And they are hanging out everywhere: radio towers, power substations, chimneys, old barns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

The women listened to the wind as it roared in the chimneys, to the ripping sounds of torn thatch, and to the whimpering of frightened children.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

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 Samuel Adams Drake

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

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

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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