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Example sentences for "stovepipe"

Lexicographically close words:
stoutly; stoutness; stoutnesse; stove; stoved; stoves; stow; stowage; stowaway; stowaways
  1. Sometimes one saw a few flashing lengths of new stovepipe in a backyard, and pitied the owner.

  2. There is no humour in the old, bitter-true stovepipe jests of the comic papers.

  3. Mr. Hennessy, wearing a silver-painted stovepipe hat and a silver cape and carrying a torch, came in, looking much the worse for wear.

  4. We make all we want, and don't care either for your religion, your opium, your whiskey, or your stovepipe hats.

  5. Trade is divine, and stovepipe hats mark the intellectual races.

  6. This should be braced round the stovepipe and left open at the end next the stove.

  7. Bell suggests that an efficient foul-air shaft may be fitted to the commonest of stoves by simply inclosing the stovepipe in a jacket--that is, in a pipe two or three inches greater in diameter.

  8. Not a child ventured to show himself, and he had it as much to himself as though he owned it; and he could lay his stovepipe down now without any fear of its being greased up or sat on.

  9. Smoke was issuing from a stovepipe that protruded through the roof of the smallest of these, and toward this Toby led the way.

  10. Smoke was curling upward from the stovepipe which protruded above the roof.

  11. I was going to have him whitewash the vegetable cellar, take down and clean the laundry stovepipe and do some other jobs.

  12. To the east of the stovepipe were their beds, covered with patchwork quilts made by the mother, and the boxes in which they kept their clothes and trinkets.

  13. The three big brothers were in the attic overhead, huddled close about the warm stovepipe that came up through the floor, with the dogs at their backs.

  14. How funny they look with stovepipe hats, and boots, too--oh my!

  15. It certainly was by Mr. Iwakura, who lifted his stovepipe hat and bowed like a native Vermonter before he sat down.

  16. There was a stovepipe hole in the partition between the two rooms through which detached and semi-detached words were wafted to my ears.

  17. By the time I got out from behind my desk and into the hall again, all I could see was the top of Noah's stovepipe vanishing down the stairway.

  18. The stovepipe in this case furnishes the necessary outlet for the impure air, and the following suggestion has been made in order to utilize this outlet, even when the fire is not burning freely or when the damper in the stovepipe is closed.

  19. If the stovepipe from a stove is carried horizontally, as it usually is, an elbow must be provided to raise the pipe to the stove hole in the chimney.

  20. The stovepipe also went through the bath-room and helped to provide warmth.

  21. His own home he could plainly see, and he noted the smoke as it poured from the stovepipe and realized that this meant the preparation of a warm supper with which he would be greeted upon his return.

  22. This frame was covered with flimsy, dirty canvas, and had a stovepipe protruding from the top.

  23. They had gone down to the gulch directly after breakfast, but now returned to the cabin, to fix up the stovepipe as previously mentioned, and to cut enough small wood to last for several weeks.

  24. We can't have that stovepipe up there, that's certain," he said.

  25. We haven't a stove in the house, and yet what does she do at Murphy's sale but bid on sixty-two feet and three elbows of rusty stovepipe and cart it home with four debilitated gingham umbrellas.

  26. And the stovepipe could be sent out to the farm to be put around the peach trees to keep the cows off.

  27. How in thunder she was ever going to get a stovepipe around a peach tree never crossed her mind.

  28. The dishes danced upon the table; the coffee slopped out of the cups; and the stovepipe over the chimneypiece slobbered down a trickle of ancient soot that was, with age, turned brown and caky.

  29. In the other room, with the stovepipe in the middle of it, was a big couch, and that was to be my bed at night.

  30. A stovepipe is fitted at one end, and room is made at the front by which wood may be supplied to the fire to heat the water.

  31. The stovepipe may become so hot as to set fire to the walls of the house where it enters, or a blaze may be carried within if there is too much fire in the stove.

  32. In this trench can be laid old stovepipe and the ground filled in around it.

  33. The end of the dugout was closed up in the same way except for a hole near the top fitted closely to the stovepipe and packed with mud.

  34. He installed a very large and loud hand organ inside the imitation calliope wagon, with a stovepipe poking out of the top, plenty of damp straw inside, a man to feed and burn it.

  35. Thereafter, Alfred ordered the odd furniture, stovepipe and stove loaded in the bottom of the wagon.

  36. Yet soot is deposited in the stovepipe and smoke issues from the chimney.

  37. What is found deposited on the inside of the stovepipe of a coal range?

  38. To what is the upper end of the stovepipe joined?

  39. Note the place where the stovepipe joins the range.

  40. They can be caught on a shingle or piece of sheet metal shoved into a stovepipe hole or removed through a clean-out door.

  41. When flue lining is necessary, it will serve as a form for the flue: otherwise a metal stovepipe makes a practical form, or the flue can be formed of brick laid on edge.

  42. A, Elevation of protection around a stovepipe passing through a frame partition; B, sectional view.

  43. Some one seemed to be sitting on top of the hat, which was shaped like the silk stovepipe one Uncle Wiggily always wore.

  44. So, tossing up in the air his tall silk stovepipe hat, and letting it bounce three times on the end of his pink nose, Uncle Wiggily hurried off.


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