Example sentences for: smokestack

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

  • A lot of people all over the world stumbled pretty much simultaneously upon the smokestack, the double exposure, the multiple shadow, the wall of humans, etc.--although Martin Munkàcsi deserves special mention for his work on the last, and this book doesn't even reproduce my favorite picture by him, a large scattering of schoolchildren lying on the grass, seen from above and looking like so many clothespins.

  • The Post 's headline, "Dow Adds Microsoft, Gets Less Industrial," encapsulates the thrust of the stock-index change: new money (tech stocks) is pushing out the old ("smokestack" stocks).

  • Today some of them are dressed in elaborate costumes that include giant smokestack hats with ribbons of flame and smoke spilling out.

  • The problem, the editorial said, is where to draw the line: "The antitrust policy of the past--when national borders blocked free movement of goods and services and when traditional smokestack industries provided the main thrust of industrial growth--no longer holds water.


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