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Example sentences for "white smoke"

  • At first, expansion takes place in consequence of the heat, but this effect is soon reversed, as the oxygen is converted into a solid by union with the phosphorus, forming a white smoke, which gradually disappears.

  • Then followed a burst of red flame, a puff of white smoke, a clear ringing report.

  • Every bush and every tree spouted little puffs of white smoke, and the leaden messengers of Death whistled through the air.

  • Clouds of white smoke arose in the direction of the Porte Maillot, while bombs from Mont ValĂ©rien burst over the Arc de Triomphe.

  • Idle spectators, watching from the TrocadĂ©ro, see long lines of white smoke arise in the distance.

  • It enters into fusion at a gentle heat, and then exhales a white smoke, which may be condensed into the acicular crystals of benzoic acid, of which it contains 18 parts in the hundred.

  • When applied to a lighted candle it takes fire, swells considerably, and exhales a white smoke of a pungent odour; but does not run into drops.

  • There was another barn out that road, and from behind it, or from all corners, puffs of white smoke were to be seen at frequent intervals.

  • Looking ahead over the straight road, in the direction whence I had retreated, we saw a dense cloud of white smoke, like a fog-bank, rise over the tops of the trees.

  • There were Boers to the left of him, Boers to the right of him, pulling at their long, drooping pipes and sending up big rings of white smoke in the white moonlight.

  • The shells of the victorious British sang triumphantly over the heads of their own artillery, bursting impotently in white smoke or tearing up the veldt in fountains of dust.

  • Then they would cease to move, and a little later would be hidden behind great puffs of white smoke, which were followed by a flash of flame; and still later there would come a dull report.

  • Kara-Bournou, a huge pillar of white smoke rushed up towards the skies, opened out like a gigantic balloon, and then a roar like the first burst of a thunder-storm told us that a magazine had blown up.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    celled animals; different cases; local affairs; under another; white clouds; white cravat; white elephant; white flowers; white goat; white hands; white horse; white laborers; white locks; white metal; white mustard; white people; white preacher; white roses; white samite; white shield; white slave; white spot; white star; white vest; white when; white witch