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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "flue" in a sentence

    flue example sentences

    flue


    1. flue pipes and all


    2. Mindy’s mother, however, was nearly in hysterics as she looked down the flue to


    3. ―So it appears that your message is inside one of these big flue pipes in the middle


    4. Before I pay off my remaining loans; my flourishing poultry farm was ruined by the spreading disease of bird flue


    5. He even had official death statistics reduced by arbitrarily decreeing an end date to the smog crisis, blaming all further deaths afterwards on a nonexistent flue epidemic


    6. Two chairs flanked a fireplace so large she could have stood among the embers and ashes without hitting her head on the flue


    7. Soon, the hole was as big as a doorway and I looked into the flue, using my


    8. He hastily gathered the broken rolls together and, stooping down, thrust the pieces up the flue of the grate and closed the register


    9. It was more than telepathy, up one flue and down another


    10. Constance, I said, how many cat lives have you had? A thousand? Don't ask which flue I slid up, which bed I ran under!"

    11. An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost to the very spot where they could see Thenardier


    12. This flue, then much damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are still visible


    13. "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it


    14. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof


    15. We waited in the parlor while he went upstairs in the air flue


    16. There was a whisper in the air flue a moment later


    17. The children fell flat in the backwash! "I have it, I have it! I'm free again! Fire in the flue! Feather on the wind! Brunilla!" Einar called to the house


    18. 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


    19. And the three of them went babbling off while he let himself be vacuumed upstairs through the air flue and set about dressing himself


    20. They went downstairs in the air flue and ran down the hall

    21. But on his thirtieth birthday, O Fates and Furies, life is over, love is done and dead, the career is up the flue or down the chute, either way


    22. This causes the water to circulate rapidly between them to the top of the flue, and protects it from being run dry, or heated red hot, when the water gets, by accident, too low


    23. I found that a warm flue caused the back-vent pipe to evaporate enough of the water from the seal of the trap to break it in less than a week, and I am confident that this often happens in practice


    24. There is a kind of well or flue cut through the rock under the tower into the church below, apparently for the bell-ropes


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    Synonyms for "flue"

    flue flue pipe labial pipe fluke

    "flue" definitions

    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


    a conduit to carry off smoke