Sentence examples for by chimney from inspiring English sources

Oct. 29: Scams by chimney sweeps.

The majority of these cooking stoves operate in a natural convection mode (being driven by chimney effect buoyant fluid forces).

Here by chimney we mean a vertical structure for venting into the outside atmosphere hot flue gases produced e.g. in a combustion process like in a boiler, in a stove, in a furnace or in a fireplace.

In 1775, the British surgeon Percival Pott reported that the incidence of scrotal cancer was increasing among chimney sweeps and predicted that the cancer was caused by chimney soot.

There, modest Capes with small scalloped canopies over concrete stoops alternate with Tudor homes, their facades broken by chimneys.

There is a wonderful description in the novel of the late 18th-century capital, with its "long lines of poorly lighted streets... tall steeples looming in the air, and piles of unequal roofs oppressed by chimneys".

And it has been altered and added to over the years, but its broad mansard roof is still crested with lacy ironwork and punctuated by chimneys and dormer windows.

This was the other, better West, with its flagrant seasons — first the red and orange and yellow leaves, which fell, it seemed, in a single mad afternoon, and then the snow, days and days, layer upon layer, the little city become a smooth hibernating drift, punctuated by chimneys with their nostalgic puffs of smoke.

Arguably I am in the middle of urban Brooklyn where the sun rarely shines and a clear view of the sky is often marred by chimneys, water towers, and gibbets from which depend AWOL sailors who strayed too far into pirate waters (not really), so GPS signal lock-in is difficult at best and impossible at worst.

Remove the lighter 'guts' by holding the lighter casing and pulling it out by the chimney.

The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney.