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
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
The Waterloo pieces — including a mini Napoleon with signature long, gray coat — are bivouacked in a downstairs furnace room, tucked inside a thin-drawer cabinet normally used to store topographical maps.
From Washington Post
It was a furnace room, and very warm.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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