flue
Example Sentences
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A generation or so ago, an open stair like this would have been restricted to two stories to ensure it didn’t act as a flue during a fire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
However, sounds from things like flue organ pipes or flutes, which are propagated through air, would be pitched higher than Earth.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
Both stoves are connected to a small flue - a pipe within a chimney that allows smoke to escape - that leads up through the chapel roof to the outside.
From BBC • May 4, 2025
While renewable energy sources are already reducing the need for CO2-emitting, fossil fuel-burning power plants, industrial plants that make intense use of fossil fuels are harder to make sustainable, so flue gas capture is essential.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing flue
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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By the Roots: Fluere: to flow (flu-)
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