How to Use furnace in a Sentence

furnace

noun

• The foundation has a crack, there’s no furnace and the pipe fittings have been stolen.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2021
• Black oils include crude oil, fuel oil, furnace oil, asphalt and tar.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
• After eight or more hours without food, the body is essentially a cold furnace that needs to be lit.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2021
• The contractor hauled in a furnace and connected it to the house’s ductwork.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2021
• Lewis’s objections melted away, like ants into a furnace.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 4 Apr. 2021
• Store gasoline at room temperature, and keep it away from potential heat sources such as the sun or a furnace.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 12 May 2021
• New ideas can now be tested down to the atomic level without workers bending over a bench or firing up a furnace.
  — John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• But other parts of the home — the kitchen, the furnace, added closet spaces and more — have been totally remodeled.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
• Diana Thomas needed a new furnace and four small basement windows for her two-story home on the east side of Kansas City.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2021
• But by the 12th century, the people of the Bhil tribe of Zawar had found a way to distill zinc by smelting ore in a closed furnace.
  — Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
• For single-family homeowners with a furnace running on cheap natural gas, the systems can be more expensive to operate but can cut greenhouse gases by at least half.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
• Allstate renters insurance covers theft, fire and smoke, vandalism and water damage from plumbing, furnace, air conditioning and water heaters.
  — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• Among other things, Candace Eubanks, the inspector, said repairs were required for the furnace, doors and electrical outlets.
  — Cary Spivak, jsonline.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• But struggle served as the furnace that later forged Perry to try harder, face rejection, keep moving and eventually meet and exceed expectations.
  — Andy Audate, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The victim threw the weapon under the furnace, but the man picked it up.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 June 2022
• Steve chopped wood for the stove and shoveled coal for the furnace.
  — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• The less time the furnace is on, the lower your heating bill will be.
  — Kaylee Staral, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2021
• If the United States is a melting pot, this is the furnace.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• Sweat poured down my body as if in a sauna at full furnace.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
• The time to learn that your furnace needs repair is not during the first cold snap.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• The furnace is set to crank up even more in Alabama over the next few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 27 June 2023
• Inside, a fire in the wood-burning furnace has taken the chill out of the room.
  — Timothy Ivy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• Most of the living people with links to the furnace reside in the United States.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The irony is that there is plenty of energy in the furnace.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• When the smelters smashed the furnace and the molten slag flowed out, what remained were precious lumps of copper.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• This pair is safe to use for the oven, grill, fireplace, furnace, and stove, among others.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 25 May 2021
• First, iron sand is drawn from the Earth and heated using both fire and air in a furnace known as a tatara.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
• The door opened to a narrow passage that led to a small space behind the furnace and the hot water heater.
  — Sophie Lewis, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The downside of the tradeoffs is that the life of a home extends far beyond the life of a furnace and water heater.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• The noise-making kitchen, laundry room and a workshop for the water heater and furnace were on one side of the house.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024