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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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“There was this weird vent, a furnace return, and a tiny cabinet with a door above it,” said Pete Lauenstein.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

When the furnace is turned back on this metal heats up again and expands which can crack the furnace.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Take Canton, Ohio-based Metallus, which melts scrap in an electric furnace to make its steel bars and other specialty steel products.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Instead of working with a massive furnace, participants use small torches, making the process feel more approachable and easier to control.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

A huge octopus of a furnace reached across most of the ceiling, and cobwebs hung on its tentacles, drifting up when I walked beneath them.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Nationalisation buys it time and gives it the power and freedom to decide on the future of the plant, while keeping the blast furnaces going.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Rock samples are first heated in the furnaces to release volatile compounds.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Electric arc furnaces are now the predominant method for making steel in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

In Communion, Doyle has combined those events with a fictional version of the industrial action which occurred after Tata's announcement that it planned to shut off the blast furnaces.

From BBC May 31, 2026

Beneath this colossal fortress, fires glared and furnaces smoked in the darkness of early dawn, and from many miles away Ruta Skadi heard the clang of hammers and the pounding of great mills.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote, Mrs. Howard

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng




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