furnace

How To Use furnace In A Sentence

• The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
• Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
• A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace.
• We had better fire up the furnace.
• When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out.
• There's a distinct whiff of anthropological research in the respectful view of men in pubs and stoking furnaces. Times, Sunday Times
• By the time we leave, the sun is a furnace blazing magnified through the windscreen, crisping my skin.
• The hot air flowing from furnaces in the cellar through the vents of the hypocaust went far to drive off the chill.
• We do not "anthropomorphize" our digestion any more than we anthropomorphize furnaces with thermostats. Minding the Brain
• Officials have already said that to protect the environment the region may have to cut back the coal production that is stoking its economic furnace. Times, Sunday Times