furnace room

Example Sentences

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I spent hours with Dad in our garage grease pit bleeding brakes, in our attic installing insulation, in the furnace room adjusting burners.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Caldwell and Mathena transformed the basement’s furnace room into a laundry room with a laundry chute from upstairs.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015

But actually there are endless rooms around you that you don't use, and there's one room way at the back – the furnace room, maybe – where your thoughts begin.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

The Waterloo pieces — including a mini Napoleon with signature long, gray coat — are bivouacked in a downstairs furnace room, tucked inside a thin-drawer cabinet normally used to store topographical maps.

From Washington Post

Moira took Aunt Elizabeth along the corridor of empty lockers, past the door to the gymnasium, and into the furnace room.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood