furnace room

Example Sentences

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I spent hours with Dad in our garage grease pit bleeding brakes, in our attic installing insulation, in the furnace room adjusting burners.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Robert Chin, then a crane mechanic who found the chapel while logging overtime hours on Sundays, recalled the priest welcoming him to confession in a furnace room for lack of space.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

Caldwell and Mathena transformed the basement’s furnace room into a laundry room with a laundry chute from upstairs.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015

But actually there are endless rooms around you that you don't use, and there's one room way at the back – the furnace room, maybe – where your thoughts begin.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote