Sentence examples for flue in from inspiring English sources

The cause of the poisoning was a partially blocked natural-gas furnace flue in the Andersons home.

"There's a hole for a flue in the canvas so get hold of Gas-bottle Jeff if you want a woodburner," she advises.

On Christmas Eve, we build a fire, then snuff it out with an old wet towel, realizing, fearfully, that we haven't cleaned the flue in five years.

The usual custom was to lead the hot air from a hypocaust into a single vertical flue in the wall of the room to be heated, through which the hot air and smoke escaped into the open air.

After a confirmed case of swine flue in the community, the susceptible are advised to go for the swine flue vaccination to acquire immunity.

Whilst in the dystopian future of Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury describes a "silent air-propelled train" that "slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth".

In this study, we examined the event of condensing water vapour in flue gas in order to recoverthe latent heat that is carried by exhaust flue gas in 60 MW natural-gas fired district heating system of a university.

And as they burn they tend to leave voids which propagate upward, becoming flues in the facade, accelerating fire spread.

He drew chimneys smoking, or flues in which figures were trapped; blocked passages, and doors opening on darkness.

A major innovation was the development of hypocaust, or indirect radiant, heating, by conducting heated air through flues in floors and walls.

She fixed "what was needed" in the house, which, as it happened, was a lot: the main pipes, the wiring, the flues in two fireplaces, and one bathroom, which is now used by her daughters.