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
• The smokestack brought down Thursday is the final stack at the plant and was the tallest, TVA said.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 3 Dec. 2020
• Winker took a ball, then smoked a 92-mph toward the smokestacks in the right-center.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
• Workers broke up the smokestack a few feet at a time starting at the top.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021
• The new power plant has two of its own smokestacks, each a little over 100 feet tall.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The smokestack of The Oriental is among the most visible.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2023
• 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
• There, the engines chug, the pipes direct exhaust out the smokestack, and the engineers stand watch.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Michael and Sherry Fitz, who can see Mill Creek’s smokestacks from their front yard, have lived a few blocks from the plant for more than a decade.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 6 June 2023
• The contents missed the smokestack but splattered on the ship, causing an angry protest.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• The project will be anchored by the historic 300-foot brick smokestack, which will be the centerpiece of a new open space called Stack Park.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2021
• The mogul’s social-media mentions have been a smokestack since at least 2018.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2022
• John Wheble from Plymouth was saddened to see the smokestack come down.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• And there are still hints of an industrial vibe: one treatment room is tucked away in the old smokestack.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2019
• In a separate photo, a plume of black smoke rises from a thin smokestack into the sky.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• Coal-burning engines can emit small cinders from their smokestacks and start fires.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• As part of the settlement, SDG&E agreed to remove the old power plant and its 400-foot-tall smokestack, which many people saw as an eyesore.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Seeing the historic smokestacks pop out overtop the trees is almost like spotting the Cincinnati skyline when driving through the cut in the hill.
  — The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
• White steam trails from its smokestack like a banner flying in the wind, visible for miles across flat farm fields near Lake Ontario.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Firefighters arrived at the door of Jose Soto, 40, and his girlfriend and her three children, and led them down a staircase that was like a smokestack.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• Inside the seating bowl, Harlow points above the outfield where a replica steamboat shoots fireworks from its smokestacks when the Reds hit a home run.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Storms and heavy rain didn't delay the demolition of the historic Hudepolh smokestack.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2019
• Under the plan, all that would remain of the existing building would be a section at the corner with 22nd Street from which its smokestack rises.
  — Jacob Adelman, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• But Chekatt wasn’t home on Tuesday morning when the police arrived at the fifth-floor flat overlooking a pair of smokestacks and flat-topped houses in the distance.
  — Jamey Keaten, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
• The plumes from large volcanic explosions typically contain a lot of sulfur — the same culprit that spews from ship smokestacks.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• Cloud trails like this may form when water vapor condenses around tiny pollution particles spewed from the smokestacks of ships.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024