boiler
Example Sentences
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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Since the stone age, people have typically kept themselves warm by burning things - wood or coal on a fire, or oil or gas in a boiler.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
Whereas a gas boiler might heat water to 70C to run round your radiators, heat pumps work better at 45C.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
Krauze joined what was then called the Vladimir Lenin shipyard in 1983, first in a coal-fired boiler room and later operating a crane.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
Since yesterday afternoon the building’s boiler has been broken, turning the apartment into an icebox.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
