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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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My house will eventually need a new roof and probably a new furnace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Seiler placed them in a semi-sealed steel container with very little oxygen and heated them in a high-temperature furnace in his home laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The new furnace would have an annual production capacity of about 1.6 million tons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Pressure, Stagg is thrown into a high-stakes furnace of egos.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The rusted shape of a furnace standing in the black water of the cellar.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The fuel is piped into homes for furnaces and boilers and also burned at power plants to generate electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"All the equipment has been almost completely destroyed. There are no windows left, and there are holes in the roofs. The blast furnaces have been almost completely ruined," Maksyshko complains.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The company expects to build plants at the site to process the ore for use in electric arc furnaces with scrap steel to make new steel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But in the meantime, the plant formerly known as Ilva has been ordered to shut off its blast furnaces by October 28 due to the presence of asbestos and illegal levels of fine airborne particles.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

As it drew near the great furnaces where, in the deeps of time, it had been shaped and forged, the Ring’s power grew, and it became more fell, untameable save by some mighty will.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote


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