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Example sentences for "smokestacks"

Lexicographically close words:
smokeless; smoker; smokers; smokes; smokestack; smokier; smoking; smoky; smolder; smoldered
  1. Above, a trellis-work of ladders ended in ungainly smokestacks that crowded the sky.

  2. The diners looked out on the pigmy furnace smokestacks punctuating the dun smoke-mist.

  3. The Carnegie Mills were already owing the Pittsburgh banks a tidy million or so, and they were compelled to uphold and support the credit of their clients, or run the risk of having smokestacks fall about their ears.

  4. He was nothing of an impressionist; he never put smokestacks on the horse nor legs on the steamboat.

  5. She screamed and pointed skyward, her twin braids standing straight out in the wind like the ropes on a bale of cotton, when smokestacks collapse and a savage howling sends the river ghosts scurrying for cover.

  6. Straight down the river the big packet boat came, purpling the water with its shadow, its smokestacks belching soot.

  7. They will listen to what the smokestacks are saying to the people.

  8. They will no longer stand in fear before what the crowds of chimneys and railways and the miles of smokestacks sweeping past are saying to the people.

  9. On beyond were the hulls of the ships sustaining their grove of masts and smokestacks and, at the extreme end, the yellow breakwater and the sky recently washed by the rain, with flocks of little clouds as white and placid as silky sheep.

  10. The masts and smokestacks diminished by this transformation appeared to belong to other smaller boats.

  11. Both her smokestacks were gone, shaken off even with the upper deck.

  12. Both boats were rolling about like chips on a mill pond, the great high smokestacks swinging first towards each other and then far apart.

  13. Even the moon seemed to fade as the long-fingered smokestacks reached toward it belching their pollution.

  14. Over the roof and the smokestacks floated the yellowish-red ball of fire.

  15. The red glow of the furnaces bathed the tall buildings, the gigantic scaffolds, the cord-like elevated pipelines and the columnar smokestacks in the crimson of anger.

  16. Four hundred smokestacks stood in a row and tubs on tubs of sooty black soot marched out.

  17. He climbed skyscrapers and flagpoles and smokestacks and was a famous steeplejack.

  18. Black smoke began to stream up from the smokestacks of the steamers; sails were thrown to the wind from the ships in all haste, and the squadron went seaward.

  19. So on and on we went, with boilers hissing and volumes of black smoke rolling from the smokestacks or chimneys, forming great clouds that were wafted away by the winds.

  20. Smokestacks from factory and mill are thickly dotted not only about the city but far into the suburbs.

  21. Smokestacks about the shore of the bay are not numerous enough to class the place as a manufacturing center.

  22. Few smokestacks were in sight, and as a business center it does not hold kinship to the bustling cities of the mainland.

  23. Away from mining towns smokestacks are few and far between.

  24. As in other places in South Africa where there are no mines, smokestacks are few here.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smokestacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.