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chimney

[chim-nee] / ˈtʃɪm ni /


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"There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

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

Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

"The house wasn't there, it was just bits of bricks and a chimney."

From BBC Apr. 4, 2026

Even the brick chimney was crumbled, a pile of rust red and gray.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

And they are hanging out everywhere: radio towers, power substations, chimneys, old barns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

Homeowners would need to keep any branches one foot away from the walls, five feet above the roof and 10 feet from chimneys.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

The snowy lawn—peppered with the toylike figures of distant people—was as smooth as sugar frosting on a birthday cake; a tiny dog ran, barking, after a ball; real smoke threaded from the dollhouse chimneys.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.

From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

O who would stay in the chimneyed town Where brooks are never seen?

From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema

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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