FLUE in a Sentence

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For FLUE, below is one of 5 sentences:
The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flue
 n.  flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor; organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
Classic Sentence:
1  This flue, then much damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are still visible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
2  The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
3  Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
4  But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence:
1  Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmoded system.