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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

There is also a nearly £1 million maintenance project to replace aging asphalt and cracked lead roofing at Buckingham Palace, including repairs to 14 chimney stacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Inside the new dome, the chimney of reactor four is a haunting ruin, coated with a crude grey concrete shell, under the shiny metal dome tall enough to house the Statue of Liberty.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

Among the first remnants of the building to be dismantled is a 'floating' chimney stack still attached to the adjoining block, several storeys above ground.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

There was no response immediately; but there was smoke coming from the chimney, so I guessed he was in the kitchen cooking his chicken.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

“No, chimneys no longer smoke with the same sincerity as formerly, and hearts have grown weary and wooden in Hungary.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 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

In fact, everything up to this point was preamble—the flight from the citadel, the squeezing down chimneys and perching on brows.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

But never before had Bobby found, above such a rustic brook, a many chimneyed and gabled house of stone, set in a walled garden and swathed in trees.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

The old red-brick, heavily chimneyed, and gabled buildings, with their large windows divided by bold mullions and transoms, and their simple noble outlines, are familiar to us all, and so are their characteristic features.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

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

From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

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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