Usage examples (7)

• The old decommissioned chimneystack rose from the schoolyard like a tower erected in honour of learning.
• Far worse, following my too-brief possession of a spectacular position, was the chimneystack directly outside that completely screened any view.
• The nearest grove of trees was more than a hundred yards away, beyond a small heap of stones that might have been the remnants of a tumbled chimneystack.
• Before they had covered a mile the clouds suddenly opened overhead, and the crescent moon and the stars showed through and gave them enough light to make out the...