smokestack

Example Sentences

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“They’re going to look like an Amazon distribution warehouse; there’s no smokestack and massive tailings pond next to it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

For decades, these newly immigrated workers would be segregated into the neighborhoods surrounding the smokestack, he added, leading to the growth of a large multigenerational Mexican community.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

They're worried about PFAs plumes in their ground, poisoning their water, or whether or not their air is poisoned by sulfur dioxide from a smokestack next to them.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

The copper smelt operated for nearly 100 years, its smokestack spewing high levels of arsenic, lead and other contaminants, which settled into the soil of surrounding neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

If this had been in a book, she thought, the skies would be weeping, the swallows mourning by the smokestack.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen