furnace

Example Sentences

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The general tone of the film is anticlimactic, but Thomas and Duke are on trajectories that spell out “tragedy” in furnace smoke across a northern English sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

And sometimes there has been a higher purpose to these arguments: occasionally, from the white-hot furnace of debate, truth can emerge.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Though the state’s temperate coast is ideal for heat pump adoption, high residential electricity prices can make swapping a gas furnace for a heat pump a pricey proposition.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Jindal Steel’s Ebitda-per-metric-ton fall on quarter is also likely to be steeper than JSW’s and Tata’s, as Jindal incurred start-up costs for its new blast furnace, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It wasn’t until 1828 that an enterprising Scot named James Neilson had the simple but effective idea of injecting heated air rather than cold air into an iron furnace by means of a bellows.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson