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smokestack

[ UK /smˈə‍ʊkstæk/ ]
[ US /ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

How To Use smokestack In A Sentence

  • The realization that the pesticide-laced foods we eat, the smokestack-befouled air we breathe and the petrochemical-based products we use negatively affect our quality of life is a big part of the reason so many people have "gone green" in recent years. The Link Between The Environment And Our Health
  • The steersman's cockpit was set at the stern, just fore of the twin metal smokestacks with ornate tops.
  • The creature grows to a tremendous size, begins sucking down the exhaust from some towering smokestacks, and generally wreaks havoc.
  • There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
  • If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.
  • A recent study published in New Scientist magazine draws a direct link between sulfurous fumes from US smokestacks and 30 years of drought in Africa.
  • Instead of viaducts and smokestacks, the dockside arts complex that bears his name is built with shards of sunlight and steel.
  • For example, why does hiding a code snippet take so long? smokestack 1 point 19 minutes ago smokestack 1 point 19 minutes ago smokestack 2 points 2 hours ago smokestack 2 points 2 hours ago smokestack 1 point 56 minutes ago smokestack 1 point 56 minutes ago turiya04 1 point 4 hours ago* turiya04 1 point 4 hours ago* Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
  • The resultant smoke discharge, together with the palls of sulphurous emissions from the smokestacks of city industry, the lack of wind and the freezing air, resulted in a choking layer of smog that blanketed London.
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