flue

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Recent Examples of flue This debris can block the flue and pose a fire risk. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025 Wood-burning fireplaces create significantly more creosote, which can build up in the flue, than gas fireplaces. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025 Firs, pines, and spruces have a high sap content that can damage your chimney flue and produce a lot of creosote on your chimney walls. Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024 Catch up quick: Capturing the carbon from the flues of plants, like gas, coal and ethanol, and storing it underground (called CCS) has long been technically but not economically feasible, and in development. Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for flue
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Noun
  • Volunteers will remove damaged, deteriorated or failing roof decking and repair it as needed; install new roofing on cabins; and install new copper flashing for chimneys, the release states.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The firm made the home’s chimneys, pane windows, and gabled slate roofs part of the design’s focus — in concert with other homes in the area — but added a twist to the classic style: The residence is three separate spaces connected by glass passageways.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The satellites are fitted with custom six-band, multispectral infrared cameras designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires, differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The satellites are fitted with custom six-band multispectral infrared cameras, designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires – differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Most notably for me and my tear ducts, The Residence gave us a sweet and tender romance between Bruce Geller, played by Mel Rodriguez, and Elsyie Chayle, played by Julieth Restrepo.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The pollutants travel down a duct into the floating processing unit, which converts them into clean nitrogen and water.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bell had opened the pipe steam valve by hand, which kept the lights on two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, saving hundreds of lives.
    Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The initial test site is near UC Irvine’s recreation center, with pipes running beneath daycare facilities, and future experiments are planned for UC San Diego’s campus.
    Jesse Kuehn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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