furnace

Example Sentences

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The typical house is well past the age when the roof needs repairs and the furnace needs replacing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The company said in December that it would eliminate a third of its workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, as it shuttered production from its blast furnace and coke ovens and transitioned to electric-arc steelmaking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

They can do double-duty as both home heaters and AC units and are pretty good at maintaining a constant temperature inside a home without the blast-then-cool-off cycle typical of a furnace.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Space Forge have sent a microwave-sized factory into orbit, and have demonstrated that its furnace can be switched on and reach temperatures of around 1,000C.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

I would have made a better choice than Travis, now that I had been annealed in the furnace of the Scientific Method.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly