smokestack

Example Sentences

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The helicopter continued on to Kendra, where the smokestacks of a paper mill normally puffed gray clouds into the sky, twenty-four hours a day.

From Literature

In nearly 130 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has evolved from its origins as a list of “smokestack” raw-materials and industrial businesses to its modern-day inclusion of cloud computing and semiconductor giants.

From The Wall Street Journal

I sit for several minutes, frustration rising into my smokestack of a brain.

From Literature

Farther off, whales blew jets of water from their blowholes like smoke from the smokestack of a Bloomer steam locomotive.

From Literature

As a child, he had a view of Fletcher Oil Co.’s towering smokestacks from his frontyard.

From Los Angeles Times