flue

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Recent Examples of flue Peoples Gas has been onsite multiple times over the winter and identified the boiler exhaust flue as a potential source of the sporadic smell, district officials said. Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025 But Chaplin lets in enough fresh air to make the reader care about things like flue innovations and the proliferation of affordable thermometers. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 The Groton Emergency Dispatch Center received a 911 call around 1:43 a.m. from resident of a townhouse on Driftwood Circle reporting a fire in the furnace and flue exhaust area of the residence, according to Capt. Gregory J. McCarthy of the Groton Police Department. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2025 This debris can block the flue and pose a fire risk. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flue
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Noun
  • Check for gaps where the chimney meets the house, and make sure chimney openings are covered properly.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
  • Chinese agencies have blown chemical smoke into clouds with rockets, planes, drones and chimneys to provoke snowfall over glaciers on the Tibetan plateau.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • At Farm Central, the Seabrook headquarters, a brick smokestack, built by Kelly Brickworks in Philadelphia, with the name SEABROOK painted vertically, rose 225 feet in the air.
    John Seabrook June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • None deny minority neighborhoods on the South and West sides suffer more from the dirty air, water and soil that historically came from steel mills, smokestacks and truck traffic.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • It can be used to clean the exterior vent outside your house and the dryer duct itself.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 17 July 2025
  • The low-noise heat pump distributes heating through floor ducts, assisted by electrical boosters that accelerate heating of the air.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • The Great Highland pipes endured within the isolation of military culture, and current traditions of advanced-piping competitions haven’t strayed far.
    Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The final order on copper tariffs, which the Trump administration says will boost the domestic copper production industry, applies to semi-finished products such as pipes, rods, sheets and wires.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 31 July 2025

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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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