FURNACE in a Sentence

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This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.

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 Meanings and Examples of FURNACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
furnace
 n.  enclosed place in which heat is produced
 n.  intensely hot place
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  "That girl that's coming told me she was used to a house where they had a furnace," Zeena persisted with the same monotonous mildness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Carol wailed, "Fix the furnace so you won't have to touch it after supper."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Everybody begged him to look over the furnace and the water-pipes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Carol stepped into a sirocco of furnace heat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  And he went down to fix the furnace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  I've wound the clock and looked at the furnace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Must take a big furnace to run this place.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Must have a big hot-air furnace, I guess.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  She heard him shoveling coal into the furnace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  There they were, the furnace sounds, unalterable, eternal: removing ashes, shoveling coal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  He was standing before the furnace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
13  Within his soul it was like a roaring furnace; he stood waiting, waiting, crouching as if for a spring.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  One morning as Jurgis was passing, a furnace blew out, spraying two men with a shower of liquid fire.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
2  Make sure that the furnace is the right size for your home; a unit that is too large is inefficient.
3  It is important to insulate the furnace from any neighboring woodwork with brick and asbestos.
4  The furnace men smelt tin with copper to create a special alloy used in making bells.
5  You need a team of about twelve people to work a furnace this size.
6  People who work with furnaces in a steel factory need to wear protective clothing.