Thesaurus results for SMOKESTACK

smokestack

noun

Definition of smokestack

as in chimney

a tall vertical structure (as on a factory, ship, etc.) for carrying smoke away The skyline of the old factory town is dotted with smokestacks.

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Recent Examples of smokestack These are the ports, pipelines, and oil refineries of Shandong province and its borderlands, where the hulking architecture of oil storage tanks and spindly profiles of smokestacks jut up from barren, coastal flatlands. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026 Thick, black and yellow plumes billowed Monday from two smokestacks at the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City after a power outage that caused the three production plants to shut down. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 May 2026 Thick, black smoke and occasional flames spewed from the Moscow Oil Refinery amid its red-and-white smokestacks on the southeastern edge of the city, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Kremlin. — Barry Hatton, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026 These modular reactors can eventually be connected directly to active factory smokestacks and local agricultural biorefineries. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for smokestack

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Human remains were found in the chimney of a public school in Queens, New York, on Tuesday morning while officials were investigating a foul odor, according to police.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
New York City investigators combed through an empty Queens school building Tuesday after human remains were found inside its chimney, police said.

— Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 30 June 2026

Definition of chimney

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Anxiety rises in Moscow Russian media have reported that people are waiting up to 18 hours in lines at the pump, with internet memes popping up, one showing people setting up tables with drinks and shisha pipes next to their stationary cars.

— Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Nothing ruins a good karaoke night like that one friend who wants to show off their Mariah Carey–level pipes.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 6 July 2026

Definition of pipe

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Ray is also an alcoholic, hiding bottles in a toilet tank, an attic, a fireplace flue, even filling a soda bottle with booze for his workout.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Chinese media described the process as a closed system in which flue gas enters one end of the pipeline and fertiliser emerges from the other.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026

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