Examples from literature

• It was a sordid and grimy wilderness, topped with a gray maze of wires and pierced with thousands of chimney stacks. 
• Over all, high chimney stacks and the aerials of a mighty wireless plant dominated the entire works. 
• She was standing once more at her attic window looking across the roofs and chimney stacks upward to the blue sky of Paris. 
• The chimney stack stood up above the roof like a little stone tower, and the daylight shone down from the top, under the slanting slates that kept out the rain. 
• The pitch of the roof was flattened, the better to resist wind and storm, and through it arose the chimney stack.