CHIMNEY in a Sentence

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For CHIMNEY, below is one of 125 sentences:
But a thread of smoke rose from the chimney, and the little railed-in garden in the front of the house was dug and kept very tidy.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHIMNEY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chimney
 n.  a vertical flue that provides a path for smoke out of a building
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  She sat herself on a packing case, and made motions, plucking her dishevelled locks and rocking herself from side to side as if she were an aged beldame in a chimney corner.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
2  By the fireside, in the chimney corner, telling her beads.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
3  And then there is a chimney which is generally smoking; so somebody must live there.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
4  As she came out of the wood on the north side, the keeper's cottage, a rather dark, brown stone cottage, with gables and a handsome chimney, looked uninhabited, it was so silent and alone.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  But a thread of smoke rose from the chimney, and the little railed-in garden in the front of the house was dug and kept very tidy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  But no sound; no smoke from the chimney; no dog barking.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  So he quickly took some larch twigs to the little brick fire-place in the corner, and in a moment the yellow flame was running up the chimney.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
9  The old chimney quivered with the shock, but stood it bravely.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
10  The papers,' said Fagin, drawing Oliver towards him, 'are in a canvas bag, in a hole a little way up the chimney in the top front-room.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  The breakfast-room chimney smokes a little, I grant you, but it is only when the wind is due north and blows hard, which may not happen three times a winter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  The air was still, and while she lingered a moment here alone sounds of voices in conversation came to her ears directly down the chimney.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
13  She remembered: the furze-stack was not far from the chimney, and the voices were those of the workers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
14  At the other side of the chimney stood the settle, which is the necessary supplement to a fire so open that nothing less than a strong breeze will carry up the smoke.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
15  The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The wall juts out here to allow room for the chimney.
2  The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
3  The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.
4  We put some / a fine wire mesh over the chimney so that the birds wouldn't fall in.
5  Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmoded system.
6  He believes Santa Claus comes in through the chimney.
7  "Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said Alice to herself.
8  Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney.
9  The chimney was designed to exhale thick smoke.
10  She heard a little animal scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her.
11  She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could.
12  The air was black from smoking chimneys.
13  It's annoying that the chimneys of those plants in the city eject a lot of smoke every day.
14  The tunnel would be well - ventilated if tall chimneys were built above sea - level.
15  Plant chimneys belch out dense smoke.