How to Use furnace in a Sentence

furnace

noun
  • The victim threw the weapon under the furnace, but the man picked it up.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • Steve chopped wood for the stove and shoveled coal for the furnace.
    Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • The less time the furnace is on, the lower your heating bill will be.
    Kaylee Staral, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2021
  • If the United States is a melting pot, this is the furnace.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Sweat poured down my body as if in a sauna at full furnace.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The time to learn that your furnace needs repair is not during the first cold snap.
    Regina Cole, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The furnace is set to crank up even more in Alabama over the next few days.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 27 June 2023
  • Inside, a fire in the wood-burning furnace has taken the chill out of the room.
    Timothy Ivy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the living people with links to the furnace reside in the United States.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The irony is that there is plenty of energy in the furnace.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The arrow on the filter should point toward the furnace.
    Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • An hour later, the blast-furnace sun boils all color from the world.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2020
  • When the smelters smashed the furnace and the molten slag flowed out, what remained were precious lumps of copper.
    Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This pair is safe to use for the oven, grill, fireplace, furnace, and stove, among others.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 25 May 2021
  • First, iron sand is drawn from the Earth and heated using both fire and air in a furnace known as a tatara.
    Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The door opened to a narrow passage that led to a small space behind the furnace and the hot water heater.
    Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The foundation has a crack, there’s no furnace and the pipe fittings have been stolen.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The downside of the tradeoffs is that the life of a home extends far beyond the life of a furnace and water heater.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The noise-making kitchen, laundry room and a workshop for the water heater and furnace were on one side of the house.
    oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The furnace broke, and, amazingly, a heating tech showed up the very next day.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Heat pump sales are already outpacing the sale of gas furnaces in the US.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 May 2024
  • Out of the furnace comes liquid copper, alight with green fire.
    Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
  • Monroe said the carbon monoxide came from either the home's furnace or a van in the garage.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • While the blank entering the furnace at the left appears cloudy, the one emerging on the right is a solid, clear mass.
    Popular Science, 22 Dec. 2020
  • And around back of the furnace, there was an old easy chair with wires sticking up through the springs and a singe light hanging from the ceiling ...
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • On May 25, the building burned to the ground because of an overheated furnace.
    Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • As season one ends, Vicious has been chained to a furnace.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The basement makes a great out-of-sight spot, and the coolest place in the house during a fire is in the basement near an outside wall, away from the furnace.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Heat pumps now outsell gas furnaces in the U.S., due in part to government incentives.
    Matt Simon / Grist, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
  • If the deal is accepted, the Japanese company would reline the Gary facility’s blast furnace, which would allow for higher steel production and increase the furnace’s life by up to 20 years.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024

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