How to Use blast furnace in a Sentence

blast furnace

noun
Definition of blast furnacenext
  • Its coal powers blast furnaces of steel plants across the country.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2024
  • It’s a city that was forged in and survived a blast furnace of hard times.
    — al, 19 Dec. 2021
  • So there was some old with the new in the Bryant-Denny blast furnace decked out in QR codes.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The ore is melted at 1,600 °C in huge blast furnaces fired by coal, the same way it has been done for decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The last blast furnace went cold almost two decades ago.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The old council chamber, built in the shape of a blast furnace, was now a lecture hall.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But in Granite City, Illinois, the sound of blast furnaces roaring back to life is the area's hope.
    — Andrew Mayeda, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • An employee works in front of the blast furnace at a steel mill in Germany.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The concert took place at the base of the former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Pig iron is ore reduced to molten iron in a coal-heated blast furnace.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 28 June 2022
  • Part of the reason that coal has been resurgent is that it is used to fuel blast furnaces in which steel is made.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 28 May 2018
  • The entire building was hot as blazes, but the second floor, where Hibbard stayed, was much the worst of the two, like a blast furnace.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The tallest blast furnace pumped out smoke that was black, red, or brown, depending on what was being made.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The blast furnace originated there, and thus so, too, did cast iron.
    — The Economist, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Tata, which is based in India, wants to replace the blast furnaces and other parts of the plant dating to the 1950s with one of the world’s largest electric arc furnaces.
    — Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • My older brother also worked at J&L in the blast furnace mill, to pay for college.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Today, the Sloss Music & Arts Fest holds concerts at the foot of a blast furnace every summer (slossfest.com).
    — Marli Guzzetta, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But stopping a blast furnace in the middle of smelting molten iron used to create steel could be even riskier.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • Spare a thought for Sean Penn today, who is presumably trying to track down a blast furnace.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The unrelenting blast furnace gripping the metro area is pushing roads to the breaking point.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • Installing a low-carbon blast furnace is expensive, and can’t be done in stages.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Then the plane would land and the cabin doors would open onto the heat of Vietnam, like a blast furnace, and the crew would stand at the front of the plane and say goodbye to the men, looking them in the face, one by one.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • When Jones was born in 1954, the city was near its peak population, and the mills were woven into the landscape, from the sulphuric smell of the blast furnace to fires that lit up the sky.
    — Brian Lyman, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Minnesota will be on the edge of blast furnace heat, sparking a few T-storms late Tuesday, again Wednesday.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • The malfunction also damaged the battery system used to power the pump station for the blast furnace.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Compounding matters, much of the coal used to power blast furnaces is now under Russian control or is mined close to the front line.
    — Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Passing motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians could sometimes see the glow of the blast furnace through the large doors of the sturdy brick and steel buildings.
    — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Iron & Steel Construction accounts for as much as 40% of China’s steel demand, and iron ore, the main input for blast furnaces, is a totem of the old economy.
    — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The blast furnace of volcanoes has fallen silent, replaced by a cheery chorus of birdsong trilling from the branches and echoing through a garden of stone.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • According to York Archaeology, the blocks were cut from slag—a stony byproduct of smelting ore in a blast furnace, which was an important component of English industry in the 1800s.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024

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