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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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Multiple people were also believed to be unaccounted for at a factory in Yatsushiro city where the tip of a chimney fell down, NHK reported, citing sources.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

At the time, Nasa described pyrocumulonimbus as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds, external" as they funnelled a smoke-like chimney into the earth's atmosphere while hurling thunderbolts, wind and rain.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

But in compensation for that freedom, his chimney anchored the house as firmly to the earth as the most ancient of living trees.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

"The house wasn't there, it was just bits of bricks and a chimney."

From BBC Apr. 4, 2026

I could just see the stone chimney of the cottage through a gap in the dark trees.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

Some sealed up chimneys and doors with tape.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 2026

Same small size, same boxy shape, same pitched roofs and squat brick chimneys.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

He started at Bunnahabhain in 1978, when the 36 distillery workers all lived in the quaint, chimneyed houses clustered around the distillery.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2018

On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over against the west, a little to the north, the gray heavens were visible—a lightning seemed to run over them—a ghastly red lightning—sharply silhouetting the chimneyed housetops.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Then came a fine square, chimneyed house with sherry-glass-shaped elm-trees about it.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.

From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

For the next four hours, All wormed and squirmed his way toward the surface, wedging himself between the walls, chimneying diagonally toward the surface.

From The Guardian May 16, 2019




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