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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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“There was this weird vent, a furnace return, and a tiny cabinet with a door above it,” said Pete Lauenstein.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Tenants regularly endure leaky pipes, mold, rodent infestations and furnace breakdowns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Instead of working with a massive furnace, participants use small torches, making the process feel more approachable and easier to control.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

Tata Steel is working with the National Grid to upgrade electrical infrastructure and support the new electric arc furnace.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

Then he had the furnace taken out and moved upstairs into the living room.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

Chasing demand means ordering specialized vacuum furnaces on two-year-plus lead times, hiring and training people and building up expensive inventories of superalloys, Chiang said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Rock samples are first heated in the furnaces to release volatile compounds.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

The new electric arc furnace was hoped to be up and running by the end of 2027, replacing the traditional blast furnaces which closed two years ago with the loss of 2,000 jobs.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

Why, that fellow out at the plant don't know a thing about those furnaces.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote, Mrs. Howard

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry




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