smokestack
Example Sentences
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And now, to fuel the war effort, the big smokestacks on those big oil refineries were sending out big black plumes of gunk — and that had to be creating the smog, right?
From Los Angeles Times
In the very center, a square smokestack emitted a thin gray vapor into the blue sky.
From Literature
“They’re going to look like an Amazon distribution warehouse; there’s no smokestack and massive tailings pond next to it.”
The helicopter continued on to Kendra, where the smokestacks of a paper mill normally puffed gray clouds into the sky, twenty-four hours a day.
From Literature
In nearly 130 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has evolved from its origins as a list of “smokestack” raw-materials and industrial businesses to its modern-day inclusion of cloud computing and semiconductor giants.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
