smokestack

Example Sentences

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“They’re going to look like an Amazon distribution warehouse; there’s no smokestack and massive tailings pond next to it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

For decades, these newly immigrated workers would be segregated into the neighborhoods surrounding the smokestack, he added, leading to the growth of a large multigenerational Mexican community.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

And we're going to put a smokestack filter on top of your smokestack so you don't pollute there and give everybody cancer.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

The EPA proposal could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not used widely in the United States.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

The building shared a smokestack with unit 3.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland