CHIMNEY in a Sentence
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125 example sentences for CHIMNEY, such as:
1. Plant chimneys belch out dense smoke.
2. The air was black from smoking chimneys.
3. The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.
4. The chimney was designed to exhale thick smoke.
5. The wall juts out here to allow room for the chimney.
2. The air was black from smoking chimneys.
3. The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.
4. The chimney was designed to exhale thick smoke.
5. The wall juts out here to allow room for the chimney.
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Meanings and Examples of CHIMNEY
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chimney
n. a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
n. a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1 She sat herself on a packing case, and made motions, plucking her dishevelled locks and rocking herself from side to side as if she were an aged beldame in a chimney corner.
2 By the fireside, in the chimney corner, telling her beads.
3 And then there is a chimney which is generally smoking; so somebody must live there.
4 As she came out of the wood on the north side, the keeper's cottage, a rather dark, brown stone cottage, with gables and a handsome chimney, looked uninhabited, it was so silent and alone.
5 But a thread of smoke rose from the chimney, and the little railed-in garden in the front of the house was dug and kept very tidy.
6 But no sound; no smoke from the chimney; no dog barking.
7 So he quickly took some larch twigs to the little brick fire-place in the corner, and in a moment the yellow flame was running up the chimney.
8 There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney.
9 The old chimney quivered with the shock, but stood it bravely.
10 The papers,' said Fagin, drawing Oliver towards him, 'are in a canvas bag, in a hole a little way up the chimney in the top front-room.
11 The breakfast-room chimney smokes a little, I grant you, but it is only when the wind is due north and blows hard, which may not happen three times a winter.
12 The air was still, and while she lingered a moment here alone sounds of voices in conversation came to her ears directly down the chimney.
13 She remembered: the furze-stack was not far from the chimney, and the voices were those of the workers.
14 At the other side of the chimney stood the settle, which is the necessary supplement to a fire so open that nothing less than a strong breeze will carry up the smoke.
15 The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The wall juts out here to allow room for the chimney.
2 The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
3 The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.
4 We put some / a fine wire mesh over the chimney so that the birds wouldn't fall in.
5 Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmoded system.
6 He believes Santa Claus comes in through the chimney.
7 "Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said Alice to herself.
8 Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney.
9 The chimney was designed to exhale thick smoke.
10 She heard a little animal scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her.
11 She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could.
12 The air was black from smoking chimneys.
13 It's annoying that the chimneys of those plants in the city eject a lot of smoke every day.
14 The tunnel would be well - ventilated if tall chimneys were built above sea - level.
15 Plant chimneys belch out dense smoke.