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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

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

Only the facade of the building on Gordon Street was left standing, as well as a floating chimney stack which was gradually taken apart last week.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

The chimney, says Akashi, is “a kind of restless object. It only functions with a home.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

Purple and blue smoke billowed up from the chimney all day and all evening.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

The video was about the sea creatures who live around sul fur chimneys, which are underwater volcanoes where gases are ejected from the earth’s crust into the water.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

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

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

From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

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

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

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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