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Example sentences for "furnace"

Lexicographically close words:
furlongs; furlough; furloughed; furloughs; furmety; furnaces; furnish; furnished; furnisher; furnishers
  1. Out of the fiery furnace of the plain they came in late afternoon to the uplands, plunging into a land of deep gorges and great chasms.

  2. Mechanically they dug, shoveled, grubbed, handkerchiefs over their faces to protect from the furnace glow.

  3. Meanwhile the breath of the furnace grew to a steady heat on their faces.

  4. Yet these four months are short enough; and during that time, the steam-engine plies and the furnace fires burn night and day.

  5. From the sheds and from the fields, it is loaded into carts and drawn to the furnace doors, into which it is thrown by Negroes, who crowd it in by the armful, and rake it about with long poles.

  6. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  7. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  8. He will toil at the furnace till the stars have set.

  9. The angels shall come and sever the bad from the good, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  10. The son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that do hurt, and all them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire.

  11. Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell.

  12. Before long the pile of wood was nothing but a mass of flame, not red but yellow, a blinding yellow, a furnace lashed by the wind.

  13. It was very dark there; the red glare of a formidable furnace alone lit up with great flashes five blacksmiths; who hammered upon their anvils with a terrible din.

  14. You ought to have a furnace put into the house; it would dry the walls.

  15. He gave a tremendous laugh from the bottom of his chest as he exclaimed: "A furnace here!

  16. She ceases reading, quite happy at the thought that she had her furnace put in.

  17. At first he was stunned at this extravagant idea of introducing a furnace into his manor-house.

  18. The children's playground near the Lily furnace was ready; Howard Cardew himself had overseen the locations of the swings and chute-the-chutes.

  19. You sit there and close your eyes and just listen to this: 'The first Cardew furnace was built in 1868.

  20. The era of structural steel for tall buildings was beginning, and he bought the rights of a process for making cement out of his furnace slag.

  21. He counted his hours from the time he entered the mill until he left it, but he revealed once that there were long idle periods when the heating was going on, when he and the other men of the furnace crew sat and waited, doing nothing.

  22. The mass of incandescent fuel in the furnace chamber, surrounding the retort, keeping up the temperature of retort and iron sufficiently long to enable the decomposition to be completed.

  23. The heat of an ordinary furnace was quite sufficient.

  24. In emptying rites into this furnace Nineveh also projected her gods, the princes of the Chaldaean sky, the lords of the ghostland, that, in patient perversities, her seers had devised.

  25. In spite of the terrible pomps that surrounded the advent of the decalogue, there subsisted for his eternal temptation the furnace of Moloch and Baal's orgiastic nights.

  26. America has been a great smelting furnace in which tribes and nations have been melted together, and the result ought to be some new developments of human nature.

  27. The speech on "The Crime against Kansas," wrought the furnace of wrath to a white heat.

  28. Full red the furnace fires must glow, That melts the ore of mortal kind; The mills of God are grinding slow, But ah, how close they grind!

  29. Smokelessness, so important a feature of sea strategy, has not always been attained by liquid fuel, but where the combustion is complete, by reason of suitable furnace arrangements and careful management, there is no smoke.

  30. The consuming power of the furnace or the rate at which it can burn the fuel supplied is measured by the number of tuyeres and their section.

  31. For basic linings, magnesia crystallized in the electric furnace is being extensively used, replacing dolomite to some extent (see E.

  32. It is usual, therefore, to determine the value of a coal by the combustion of a weighed quantity in the furnace of a boiler, and measuring the amount of water evaporated by the heat developed.

  33. The material to be melted is introduced into the furnace from the hoppers HH through the charging holes in the roof.

  34. After all the power required for the operations of the blast-furnace has been supplied, there is a surplus of from 10 to 20 h.

  35. Formerly they were allowed to burn to waste at the mouth of a short chimney place above the furnace top, forming a huge body of flame, which was one of the most striking features of the Black Country landscape at night.

  36. I believe, yes, Felix, I believe it, we must pass through a fiery furnace before we reach the saints, the just made perfect of the upper spheres.

  37. But before long I fell into the furnace of an unexpected misery.

  38. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  39. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  40. This method is adopted for getting stone cheaply, as for building macadamized roads, dams and breakwaters, obtaining limestone for blast furnace flux, and occasionally in excavating large railway cuttings.

  41. The fusion process is preferably carried out in crucible furnaces; shaft furnaces are unsatisfactory on account of the disintegrating action of the molten bismuth on the furnace linings.

  42. This was food to live upon, and he began to build a furnace of his own, doing all the work himself--three masons in one.

  43. Red Roman ware has been found in every part of Gaul, and a furnace was discovered in Auvergne.

  44. In the first the furnace was rectangular, and was divided into two parts, one of which was occupied by the fire, the other by the tray for the metals.

  45. The majolica furnace will be described hereafter.

  46. The baking furnace was also rectangular, and was built of brick.

  47. In any case, she built for Cherpentier and Bernart a workshop and furnace near the chateau of Oiron, and there the admirable Henri Deux ware was made.

  48. The kind of furnace in use among the Egyptians at a very early period has already been described.

  49. While Boettcher was prosecuting his experiments in 1708, he had the furnace filled with trial pieces, which were fired for several days before a piece was withdrawn.

  50. He finished his furnace single-handed, put in his pieces, and started the fire; but still the gods were inexorable.

  51. At Castel-Durante the usual dimensions of a furnace were six feet in height and length, and five in width.

  52. The fire begins in a furnace attached to the lowest kiln.

  53. The pebbles in the mortar used in building the furnace cracked under the heat and flew in splinters, sticking in the glaze of his pieces, and spoiling them.

  54. The furnace is on the extreme right, and has a tall chimney.

  55. The length of time during which they are kept in the furnace varies according to the nature of the ware.

  56. Two or three times, the furnace each time being made less hot.

  57. These are then put into a furnace and baked; after which they are glazed.

  58. After the furnace was brought, he found that the bellows, and other implements necessary for the execution of that work, were also left on board the store-ships.

  59. The children played about in their bathing suits, and the only other active factor in my life of the moment was our hired man who was kept busy in the cellar pouring water on the furnace coal to keep it from spontaneously combusting.

  60. It is possible that when all went well with the commonwealth, children whom strict law doomed to the furnace of Moloch may also have been mercifully allowed to escape on condition of running the fiery gauntlet.

  61. The immunity enjoyed by the priestess in the furnace was attributed to her inspiration by the deity.

  62. Thus in traversing the fiery furnace the priestesses of Perasia were believed to be beside themselves, to be filled with the goddess, to be in a real sense incarnations of her divinity.

  63. Semitic parallels suggest that the victim who played the part of the Son of God in the fiery furnace ought in strictness to be the king's son.

  64. Further, the burning of Sandan in effigy at Tarsus would, on this hypothesis, answer to the walk of the priestess of Perasia through the furnace at Castabala.

  65. After a number of nights of hard labor, this opening was extended to a point below a brick furnace in which were incased several caldrons.

  66. The weight of this furnace caused a cave-in near the sentinel's path outside the prison wall.

  67. For the potter if he make a vessel, and it be turned amiss in his hands, or broken, again forms it anew; but if he has gone so far as to throw it into the furnace of fire, he can no more bring any remedy to it.

  68. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were they cast into the fiery furnace by men, professing the excellent and glorious worship of the Most High?

  69. All the windows were darkened but one, that glared red as a furnace door.

  70. When Egholm opened the furnace door, the column of smoke shone like gold, and his face glowed fantastically big and red.

  71. The dross of ambition and pride was burned away in the furnace of affliction; the impetuous high-spirited woman refined into the saint.

  72. The three holy children trod unharmed the fiery furnace seven time heated.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furnace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    breeder; burner; cooker; cookery; element; equator; forge; furnace; heater; hell; inferno; kiln; lattice; oven; pile; reactor; rod; stove; tropics