chimney

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Recent Examples of chimney The cardinals’ selection of a successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, was revealed by white smoke billowing from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 8 May 2025 As ballots were burned, black smoke billowed out of the Vatican chimney around 9 pm local time on Wednesday indicating the cardinals had not reached the majority requirement. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 May 2025 Black smoke = no new pope In Rome’s night sky, black smoke seeped through the Sistine Chapel chimney. Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 May 2025 As white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney earlier this month, Ham and his fellow Loyola students sprinted to St. Peter’s Square to watch as Pope Leo XIV first stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for chimney
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chimney
Noun
  • The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025
  • If using a fireplace, make sure the chimney flue is open and stay awake while the fire is burning.
    Dr. Mishal Reja, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Many people have their phones pointed at the smokestack, already recording, eager to capture a moment in history.
    NBC News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
  • Traditional Tibetan motifs of clouds and waves are here peppered with industrial spills and smokestacks.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Mastercard runs quantum-threat drills inside its Cybersecurity Fusion Centers and has already swapped post-quantum algorithms into some internal message pipes.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Tasks included repairing barbed wire fences, castrating animals and laying irrigation pipes, the suit alleges.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • In 2022, archaeologists rediscovered a narrow duct leading to a small ritual chamber 8 meters deep beneath one of the site’s temple buildings.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • In 90% of fetuses, these ducts fuse to form one central pancreatic duct.
    Jonathan B. Jassey, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Chimney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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