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

There will also be information on solar panels, heat pumps and boiler upgrades.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

I paint polished wood, and metal: a copper-bottomed frying pan, as seen from the bottom, an aluminum double boiler.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood