Example sentences for: chimney

How can you use “chimney” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Outside: Santa drinking a glass of milk left by the chimney.

  • The rest of Alte is the Algarve of picture postcards — white-washed houses along narrow streets, colorful windows, filigreed chimney pots, and red-tiled roofs.

  • Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.

  • The easiest and safest method of ascending is to chimney up a chimney , a wide crack that is climbed in the fashion of a chimney sweep.

  • Glowerin ida lum [by the chimney] never filled da pot .


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