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

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

St Mary's Church in Woodbridge, Suffolk, said last December it needed to raise £200,000 after its boiler broke and needed to be placed.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

But sometimes it broke out in other ways, this danger, these pent-up things, as from an overheated boiler.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque