boiler

Example Sentences

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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

He said, as part of the investigation, a boiler had been recovered from the cabin where the teenagers were staying and forensically examined.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Krauze joined what was then called the Vladimir Lenin shipyard in 1983, first in a coal-fired boiler room and later operating a crane.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Minutes later, Campbell is spotted wearing a boiler suit going out the same door.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Sam Malloy didn’t speak to them as they went by the boiler.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck