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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina.

From Barron's ● Aug. 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

The pixies scooped up the bits of wool around the wheel, laughing their tinkly giggles, and flew up the chimney.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The refinery -- built in the 1960s in then communist-ruled East Germany -- is a maze of metal pipes, huge tanks and stone chimneys the size of more than 1,200 football fields.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The board also clarified it would not require the removal of trees, although limbs would need to be trimmed away from roofs and chimneys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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 roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

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

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

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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