How to Use blast furnace in a Sentence

blast furnace

noun
  • The system works like a toaster crossed with a blast furnace.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Its coal powers blast furnaces of steel plants across the country.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2024
  • The product is used in blast furnaces to produce iron.
    — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The old council chamber, built in the shape of a blast furnace, was now a lecture hall.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The blast furnace originated there, and thus so, too, did cast iron.
    — The Economist, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Part of the reason that coal has been resurgent is that it is used to fuel blast furnaces in which steel is made.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 28 May 2018
  • The tallest blast furnace pumped out smoke that was black, red, or brown, depending on what was being made.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
  • An employee works in front of the blast furnace at a steel mill in Germany.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Most virgin steel requires a blast furnace that uses coal to smelt iron ore into iron.
    — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2025
  • This is why the metals story is not just about rebuilding blast furnaces.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Jingye has canceled orders for the iron pellets used in the plant’s two massive blast furnaces.
    — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Installing a low-carbon blast furnace is expensive, and can’t be done in stages.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021
  • To begin its journey into steel, the ore is placed into blast furnaces where a type of coal known as coke is burned.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2025
  • At Gary Works, blast furnaces produce pig iron, which is then used to create high-strength steel.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But stopping a blast furnace in the middle of smelting molten iron used to create steel could be even riskier.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • There will soon come a time when conditions will turn to the normal blast furnace of a hot Texas summer.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 May 2025
  • Every ten to twenty years, a blast furnace must be relined, which costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Both blast furnaces are due to be shut this year, with the new electric furnace installed by 2027.
    — Pan Pylas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The unrelenting blast furnace gripping the metro area is pushing roads to the breaking point.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • So there was some old with the new in the Bryant-Denny blast furnace decked out in QR codes.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The concert took place at the base of the former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Spare a thought for Sean Penn today, who is presumably trying to track down a blast furnace.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
  • My older brother also worked at J&L in the blast furnace mill, to pay for college.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The ore is melted at 1,600 °C in huge blast furnaces fired by coal, the same way it has been done for decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But in Granite City, Illinois, the sound of blast furnaces roaring back to life is the area's hope.
    — Andrew Mayeda, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • The entire building was hot as blazes, but the second floor, where Hibbard stayed, was much the worst of the two, like a blast furnace.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The malfunction also damaged the battery system used to power the pump station for the blast furnace.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2018
  • As the blast furnace relining looms, McCrady said this study is important.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The breakthrough technique enables the smelters to extract metal from low-grade ore with chemicals, avoiding the need for blast furnaces.
    — Alfred Cang, Fortune, 19 June 2025
  • Compounding matters, much of the coal used to power blast furnaces is now under Russian control or is mined close to the front line.
    — Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023

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