stovepipe

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Recent Examples of stovepipe And more often than not, there was Abraham Lincoln, singing along in black suit and stovepipe hat. New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, eliminate stovepipes that inhibit information sharing between tracking agencies. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 Remove all branches within 10 feet of any chimney or stovepipe outlet. Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 In the drone ecosystem, definitive stovepipes revolve around technology development. Bill Edwards, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stovepipe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stovepipe
Noun
  • Protesters threw stones and plastic water bottles at police cruisers and onto the 101 Freeway, temporarily stopping traffic, and members of the crowd set several driverless Waymo cars on fire, producing a funnel of black smoke.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Mosquito traps with fans and funnels have shown good efficacy, especially when multiple neighbors on adjacent properties use them.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Its caretakers had firefighting equipment, hoses and standpipes at the ready to draw water across different points of the property.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • My favorite subject by far has been standpipes, those systems that supply water to a building in case of fire.
    James Barron, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Doctoring provides powerful tools for getting under the hood, but writing offers ones that dig into the interstitial spaces where our more utilitarian tools falter.
    Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
  • Two things are key: ‘Spatial analytics’ are easy to use—the complexity is under the hood.
    Cindy Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 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
  • Standing next to him in the indoor baptismal was Iran Dean, also in a white gown and wearing a white bonnet to cover his dreadlocks.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • One of the downsides of wearing a silk bonnet or satin bonnet is that sometimes indentations or red lines can appear on the forehead where the elastic band or tie was during the night.
    Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Opponents of the area’s Dimes Square–ification founded an organization that documented all manner of bad behavior up and down Canal Street: bar patrons peeing in plants, splashes of vomit on doorsteps, and crowds blocking hydrants.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025
  • On Friday, another car was parked in front of the hydrant outside the Buddhist temple — as well as every hydrant on the block.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Grammy winner stepped out in a black minidress with leopard-print collar and a matching beret.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Hurts wore a black velvet embellished with gemstones along his shoulders, and accessorized his look with a black beret and jewelry by Tiffany & Co. and Breitling.
    Natasha Dye, People.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • In January 1980, at a federal prison in Lompoc, Boyce hid in a drainpipe and sprinted to freedom over a fence.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
  • Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Stovepipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stovepipe. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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