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How to use boiler in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Boiler means a person who boils something. Example: “What's the best way to blow off and clean a boiler?”

Examples of boiler by meaning

nounBoilerplate.

  • Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.2003 December 7, Tom Potter, "Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet
  • Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).2007, Jim Casey, “Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars”, in tx.guns (Usenet)
  • Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!2009 March 30, hughess7, “Re: Mail merge to PDF”, in microsoft.public.access (Usenet)

More sentences with boiler

  • What's the best way to blow off and clean a boiler?From the entry blow off
  • The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.From the entry return
  • Now that all the ship's boilers were fired up, the voyage was well and truly underway.From the entry fired up
  • There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler.From the entry buildup
  • My old combi boiler broke down.From the entry combi
  • The house had tatami mats, pechka (a Russian stove) and samovar (a Russian water boiler for tea).2023, Kumi Tateoka, “Vladivostok as а Meeting Point between West and East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Around Years of Siberian…. From the entry pryanik
  • The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 19. From the entry boiler suit
  • The dolliers were tardy too; the coal should have been brought and the boilers stoked by 5.30.2015, Emily Woof, The Lightning Tree. From the entry dollier
  • You felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.2003, Erik Larson, “Prologue: Aboard the Olympic”, in The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 6. From the entry strake
  • In natural gas-fired boilers, gas pressure is critical to proper burner operation and efficient combustion.1999, James E. Piper, “Boiler Systems”, in Operations and Maintenance for Energy Management, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry underfiring
  • While she was heating and churning the hellbrew in a double boiler, her sight began to fade.1980, Alfred Bester, Golem¹⁰⁰, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry hellbrew
  • On the assistant's side of the cab, another light shows should the train heating boiler shut down.1958 June, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for the Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 395. From the entry shut down
  • The locomotive is fitted with a train heating boiler situated in the central compartment.1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 604. From the entry lighting up
  • After the initial lighting up the boiler is completely automatic and adequate safeguards are provided.1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 604. From the entry lighting up
  • The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 185. From the entry mattress
  • The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.1951 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 283. From the entry surmount
  • Side footplating is carried by brackets fixed to the smokebox and boiler.1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 400. From the entry footplating
  • These boilers use small tubes and in many cases are drumless.1948, Edgar MacNaughton, Elementary steam power engineering. From the entry drumless
  • Sam Malloy didn't speak to them as they went by the boiler.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, page 105. From the entry beyond the pale
  • Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.1928, “Carrots and Beets in Turnip Border”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 45, page 109. From the entry dice
  • I employed a practical boiler smith, who expanded and ferruled the tubes.1902, The English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 74, London: E. J. Kibblewhite, →OCLC, page 42. From the entry ferrule
  • From downstairs we heard a hoosh as the boiler started.2013, James Quackenbush, A Speckled Axe, page 88. From the entry hoosh
  • For instance, when sodium is burned, it becomes a snotlike goo that fouls boiler tubes and drives engineers nuts.2007, Jeff Goodell, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. From the entry snotlike
  • They could live on jerked goat, the strong black coffee they called 'boiler compound,' and hash cooked in a tin hat.2007, Winston Groom, 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls. From the entry tin hat
  • Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup…. From the entry sugarbush
  • But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock.1994 November 5, Ross Tieman, “Yachtsmen on a long-term voyage to recovery”, in The Times, number 65,104, London, page 25. From the entry yesteryear
  • Furnaces and boilers with horizontal heating surfaces require frequent cleaning, because fly ash (fine powdery ash) collects on these surfaces.1975 May, Joseph W[inslow] Simons, “Fuels and Burners”, in Home Heating: Systems, Fuels, Controls (Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 2235)…. From the entry fly ash
  • Her boilers needed cleaning, too, and behold the opportunity.1969, George Allan England, The greatest hunt in the world. From the entry airsome
  • Scald the milk in a double boiler with the cinnamon.1948 September, Lois Cook, “Recipes from South Africa”, in Blanche Stover, editor, Practical Home Economics, Incorporating Better Food…. From the entry maizeflour
  • A great torrent of water was flung along the boiler and came streaming over the cab roof like a young Niagara.1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 272. From the entry Niagara
  • Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173. From the entry safety valve
  • Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry lading-can
  • For years it served the household needs of several families and the boilers of my great-grandfather's small, steam-powered cotton gin and sawmill.2022, Kelby Ouchley, Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place, page 65. From the entry spring box
  • New Jersey has taken another underwater hit, this time amidships, and reports are coming in of one of the boiler rooms beginning to flood.2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 34:20 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022. From the entry counterflooding
  • The generation of exhaust gases at the Bayer process occurs essentially at two points: the steam generating boiler and the alumina calcinatory.2012, Luis Alves Venancio, Emanuel Negrão Macedo, José Antonio Silva Souza, Fernando Aracati Boelho, “Bauxite Residue Neutralization and…. From the entry calcinatory
  • Passengers hang over the bull rail on the bottom deck and the second-level boiler deck rail as These steamers meet on the Green River.2012, Roger G. Givens, Nancy Richey, Butler County, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry bull rail
  • Then the brass bell on top of the boiler rings out and a single massive chuff! of steam issues from the bowels of the loco.2010, Don Gayton, Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys Through Terrain, Terroir and Culture, page 82. From the entry chuff

Meaning of boiler

  1. noun A person who boils something.
  2. noun A steam boiler.
  3. noun An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.

Full definition of boiler

Questions about boiler in a sentence

How do you use boiler in a sentence?
Boiler is used as a noun. For example: “What's the best way to blow off and clean a boiler?”
What is a short sentence with boiler?
“My old combi boiler broke down.”
What does boiler mean?
Boiler means a person who boils something.

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