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

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 rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Historically, Southern California has been plagued by smog, which forms when the region’s persistent sunlight interacts with vehicle exhaust and smokestack emissions.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2024

They could see the top of the Giulia's smokestack, the smoke itself discernible only as a starless patch of night sky.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides