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Example sentences for "smoke"

Lexicographically close words:
smoaky; smock; smocke; smocked; smocks; smoked; smokehouse; smokeless; smoker; smokers
  1. The Hills he touches--Clouds of Smoke arise, And sulph'rous Streams mount heavy to the Skies.

  2. Whitehead, who is very shrewd, soon after began to smoke it, and looking in my face said, I'll be hanged if this is not some of your American jokes upon us.

  3. But almost before the last smoke of battle cleared away, a renaissance of Puritan ardour began, and by the middle of the 70's it was in full flower.

  4. I would rather have a human being around who is willing to smoke a cigar with me once in a while, to crack a joke, or at least to laugh at my jokes.

  5. Asked why, he said: "So I can wear dirty clothes, smoke a pipe, and spit tobacco juice in the street.

  6. The fogs cannot have been worse than those which prevailed for nearly a week one winter at the close of the 'nineties, but the smoke nuisance was perhaps more acute because entirely unregulated.

  7. At this period, it may be also noted, cabmen were not allowed to smoke when on their stands.

  8. The fact is that your party is so slow and I am weally so infernally bored, that I shall go somewhere and smoke a quiet cigar.

  9. All the while that it took me to smoke it he stood there in silence, with his hands in the pockets of his jacket.

  10. You smoke while I dress, and we’ll have a talk.

  11. The top is covered with mats, leaving a space of twelve or fifteen inches the whole length of the house, for the purpose of admitting the light and suffering the smoke to escape.

  12. We received them kindly, smoked with them, and gave them a piece of tobacco to smoke with their tribe.

  13. The visitors were entertained with presents and a long smoke at the pipe of peace.

  14. The whole country soon appeared to have taken fright, and great clouds of smoke were observed in all directions.

  15. They all now came up; and after alighting, the Indians asked to smoke with us.

  16. He also built a fire, the smoke of which might attract the attention of the Indians.

  17. Soon afterward Drewyer returned from hunting, and was sent to invite Twisted-hair to come and smoke with us.

  18. We hear of them dressed in plain clothes as peasants, and signalling with coloured lights, with puffs of smoke from chimneys, and by using the church clock hands as semaphores.

  19. These natives also understood the language of smoke-fires--signalling by means of little or big puffs of smoke as to the enemy's moves and strength.

  20. As Black Hawk was approaching his village on Rock river, after his campaign on the lakes with Dixon, he observed a smoke rising from a hollow in the bluff of the stream.

  21. Some distance behind them, toward the mainland, a thin trail of smoke which had not been seen for two or three hours was now visible inside the keys.

  22. From the stove-pipe chimney of one of these cabins, the largest, a thin spiral of blue smoke rose and drifted away on the breeze.

  23. The smoke of their rifles showed along the very summit of the rock-rim.

  24. He could still see a faint smoke rising from the Indian camp.

  25. From the bushes jets of smoke puffed like toy balloons continuously.

  26. We got neighbors," announced Big Bill, watching a thin column of smoke rising from the mesa back of them.

  27. He and Bob fired at the smoke puffs, growing now more frequent.

  28. From a summit they saw before them a thin spiral of smoke rising out of an arroyo.

  29. His eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloom inside and to the turf smoke which filled the room.

  30. Mr. Finnegan was hovering in the background, half hidden in the smoke which filled the house.

  31. A thread of smoke in a corner of the ceiling, a tiny flame, and soon the whole room would be an intolerable brightness with masses of falling flaming timbers.

  32. Calm and heedful; the slight occasional breath of air from the east carries away to the front the slow flame, blent with a little smoke of those torches which he holds one in each hand.

  33. Light clouds, like smoke from a spotless sacrifice in honor of the Most High, floated across the enamel of the sky--if it is permitted to compare that with enamel with which no enamel that was ever made can compare.

  34. The face and shoulders of an appalling devil terrified them, belching forth smoke and stench from beneath a huge rock, and several times the travellers were cast down to the ground and buffeted by tempests.

  35. There was no appearance of fire in the lower stories, but smoke was gushing through all the interstices of the upper windows.

  36. We placed our kindlings, lighted them with a match scraped inside Blanch's slipper, and soon a blue column of smoke was rising straight into the morning air, and the flames were growing.

  37. A thin wreath of smoke curled from the stone chimney, curtains of spotless whiteness showed inside the tiny hinged windows, and a luxuriant hopvine draped all the wall next us.

  38. In a few minutes the smoke reddened, a little tongue of flame crept through a crevice, broadened, and the fire burst forth.

  39. Fine cigarettes, these," she commented, still watching the smoke rings to avoid meeting his eyes.

  40. When the ladies had gone to their staterooms, the President sent Quatremain upon a wholly unnecessary errand to the post-office, and drew up a chair to smoke a cigar with Fleetwell.

  41. Mr. Vennor leaned back in his chair and regarded her gravely through the swirls of blue smoke curling upward from his cigar.

  42. Take a cigar to smoke after breakfast"--and the gray duster and velvet skull-cap disappeared forthwith around the angle in the vestibule.

  43. Get her over there on my side, and I'll smoke me a pipe out o' Johnnie's window.

  44. This smoke announced that Rome was still without a master, and that the world still had no pope; for this was the smoke of the voting tickets which were being burned, a proof that the cardinals had not yet come to an agreement.

  45. Moreover, there was no smoke rising on the land to give me hope that I had been seen.

  46. For I was pretty sure that with all the unravelled tow I had stuffed into my leggings, and with the fat of my dogs, I could make smoke enough to be seen if only I could get a light.

  47. The son shall say, Pointing the while, 'There where the curving line Of smoke floats, there is Ilium.

  48. Others came on through the smoke as comfortable as you please, sitting on three-legged stools; and alighted by the fire, with their black cats on their laps.

  49. Then she went on with a pretty good heart till she reached high ground, from which she could only just see the smoke curling over the house-tops below.

  50. When the chimney and house are full of smoke as one can bear, throw the changeling on the hearth-stone; go out of the house; turn three times round; when one enters the right cheeld will be restored.

  51. Jacob looked at him sadly, shook his head, and after lighting his pipe in silence, strolled away for his evening smoke to the woods, where he was wont to retire when Peter made the house too warm for him.

  52. I dash upstairs and smoke a cigar in my own room.

  53. He blew a cloud of smoke into the air and half-centered his attention on the scope.

  54. Coughing and waving smoke from in front of his face, he swung open the door of the first reserve compartment.

  55. Away up this valley he could see the tall smokestack of the sawmill, with its waving plume of smoke coming up out of a fairy mass of delicate May foliage.

  56. He stood looking down at the contented, round-shouldered assembly, with little columns of smoke curling up from pipes of peace, and his disapproving brows bristled as though he were about to burst into loud barking.

  57. Susan Winters said I wasn't to take it, for fear the smoke might be bad for the orphant's eyes.

  58. The iron smoke-pipe from furnace must be conducted to the smoke flue, and the connection between furnace chamber and flue hermetically sealed.

  59. At the end of the laconicum they enter flues, which I have shown as running side by side with the smoke flues.

  60. It should be a cosy place where the bather may recline and cool, and smoke and read, or otherwise divert himself to his heart's content.

  61. The smoke wandered gently through the smilax plantation, and left hurriedly when it met the electric fan.

  62. It comes," he said, "from the smoke of juniper leaves.

  63. A volley of black and stifling smoke poured forth and he nearly fell.

  64. But nothing I could say or do made any difference; at twenty-two he was old enough and big enough to have his own way, and his way was to smoke cigarettes eternally.

  65. Lake, a little sulky, settled himself in one corner of the hall to smoke a cigarette before his experiment.

  66. That curious smell of bitter smoke still hung about it.

  67. Just as I was dropping off I was awakened again by a smell of bitter smoke in my nostrils--the smell of burning juniper leaves.

  68. They don't admit that they smoke hasheesh or have ever smoked it if they can help it, and it cannot always be spotted.

  69. Smoke it in your own room, though--not downstairs.

  70. Thus our savings went up in powder smoke and in guesses at the whereabouts of a fleeting pea.

  71. She touched herself in the right side, and said, "The doctor tells me to smoke for some trouble here.

  72. The smoke drifted slowly up the hillside; some of the wounded men began hollerin' for water; one got to his knees and emptied his gun at us.

  73. And when he was working, if you said the least thing against the job, he wanted trouble with you; but the next day he'd smoke his pipe and tear it apart worse than you possibly could.

  74. The chinks between the logs of the walls were plastered with red clay; the dust and dirt were gone; the place smelled like sage and wood-smoke and fragrant, frying meat.

  75. I went back to Dodge to have a little quiet smoke with these men who had ruined me.

  76. The air was crisp and nipping, the frost crackled under his feet, the smoke from his pipe seemed no thicker than the steam from his breath, the ax rang on the hard aspens.

  77. He began a descent, leading off somewhat to the right of the point where the smoke had arisen.

  78. When the smoke cleared away Wade saw the opposite slope bare except for one fallen elk.

  79. The smoke again began to lift, to float out of the door and windows.

  80. The little gray cabin, with smoke curling from the stone chimney, had lost its look of dilapidation and disuse, yet there was nothing new that Columbine could see.

  81. He lighted his pipe and composed himself beside the camp-fire to smoke and rest awhile before going to bed.

  82. The smell of wood-smoke and odorous steam from pots and the fragrance of spruce mingled together, keen, sweet, appetizing.

  83. Smoke was lifting, and drifting out of door and windows.

  84. A lazy column of blue smoke curled up toward the sky, to be lost there.

  85. At the edge of this valley a faint column of blue smoke curled upward.

  86. Indeed, there were a glowing bed of embers and a steaming kettle and a smoking pot; and the way the smoke and steam curled up into the gray old chimney attested to its splendid draught.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerate; air; amphibian; ash; ashes; bake; barrel; becloud; bedaub; besmear; besmirch; black; blacken; blot; blotch; blow; blur; bluster; boil; brand; breath; brush; bubble; burn; butt; calx; carbon; carbonate; chafe; charcoal; chew; chewing; cinder; clinker; cloud; coal; coke; cork; corn; crow; cure; damp; darken; daub; dirty; discolor; distill; drag; drain; draw; dross; dry; dust; ebony; effluvium; embalm; emit; ether; evacuate; evaporate; exhale; exhaust; expire; fag; fire; firedamp; fluid; fog; freeze; fret; fume; fumigate; grime; haze; illusion; inhale; ink; irradiate; jerk; jet; kiln; kipper; lava; malaria; marinate; mark; miasma; mire; mist; moonshine; muck; muddy; murk; night; obscure; overcast; overshadow; parch; perfume; phantom; pickle; pill; pitch; preserve; puff; pull; rage; rant; rave; raven; reek; refrigerate; rub; salt; scorch; scoria; scour; sear; season; seethe; shade; shadow; shrivel; simmer; singe; sizzle; slag; slur; smear; smirch; smoke; smoking; smolder; smudge; smut; soil; soot; spirit; sponge; spray; stain; steam; stew; stigmatize; storm; stuff; sublimate; sublime; sun; swab; taint; tar; tarnish; towel; vapor; vaporize; volatilize; weazen; wipe; wither; wizen


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    smoke house; smoked salmon; smokeless powder