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

A really well-configured heat pump might use a quarter of the energy of its gas boiler equivalent.

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

Minutes later, Campbell is spotted wearing a boiler suit going out the same door.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

I hadn’t been there that long when they put me to tending the boiler.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson