How to Use smokestack in a Sentence

smokestack

noun
  • The waves ripped off part of the smokestack and swept away all but one of the lifeboats.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
  • Workers broke up the smokestack a few feet at a time starting at the top.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021
  • Coal-burning engines can emit small cinders from their smokestacks and start fires.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Winker took a ball, then smoked a 92-mph toward the smokestacks in the right-center.
    — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
  • The new power plant has two of its own smokestacks, each a little over 100 feet tall.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The contents missed the smokestack but splattered on the ship, causing an angry protest.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
  • This was a spritely little engine with a high smokestack, lots of polished brass, red paint and gold trim.
    — Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The two-week restoration project aims to repair and renovate the deck, masts, tubs and smokestacks.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In a separate photo, a plume of black smoke rises from a thin smokestack into the sky.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • When flaring occurs, passersby can see flames coming from smokestacks.
    — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Skiers and snowboarders flew in front of a tableau of skyscrapers and an out-of-commission smokestack.
    — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • John Wheble from Plymouth was saddened to see the smokestack come down.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • When David asks about the smoke rising from a smokestack at the plant, his father tells him that that’s where the male chicks are burned.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There, the engines chug, the pipes direct exhaust out the smokestack, and the engineers stand watch.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Experts believe Astor may have been hit by a falling smokestack.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The roof once protected that smokestack from sabotage by rival mobs.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In this setup, the fire sat in a separate chamber to one side, while a smokestack on the other end drew heat and smoke across the meat.
    — J.c. Reid, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The mogul’s social-media mentions have been a smokestack since at least 2018.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2022
  • An email from a school spokeswoman to parents said a boiler room explosion blew off the top part of a building’s smokestack.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The video shows slight puffs of smoke from the Sea Star’s smokestack, and then darker smoke rising from it after the strike.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
  • Clean-air controls since the 1980s largely turned off the columns of black soot that used to rise from coal smokestacks.
    — John Raby, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
  • The most recent restoration project invited tradeswomen from across the country to work on the ship’s deck, masts, tubs and smokestacks.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The smokestack brought down Thursday is the final stack at the plant and was the tallest, TVA said.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Just off Baseline Road, where the church spires rise up like smokestacks of hope, there’s an austere little building.
    — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Part of the researchers’ message is that exposure to harmful substances doesn’t just come from smokestacks or car exhaust.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Today, its red and white striped smokestacks still loom over the surrounding cornfields, making ants of the workers who file out at quitting time.
    — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Smog forms on warm, sunny days and is made worse from chemicals that come from car and truck tailpipes and from power plant and industrial smokestacks.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But the agency now says that those numbers in the consent order do not reflect the cancer risk posed by air from refinery smokestacks.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The storm also sheered off about nearly two-thirds of the plant smokestack that measured 20 feet across and 225 feet high.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
  • Storms and heavy rain didn't delay the demolition of the historic Hudepolh smokestack.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2019

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