smoke
Example Sentences
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Thousands of residents who lost their homes or suffered extensive smoke damage remain displaced.
From Los Angeles Times
Videos taken that day from the men’s bedroom show smoke rising from and around nearby buildings and locals on scooters and motorbikes leaving the area.
Hitler left Germany a smoking shell of a country, which is not the mark of a great leader.
From Salon
Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.
“Each avenue of commercial, whether it’s sponsorship, licensing, ticketing, hospitality, they’re all just kind of smoking hot, if you will, right now,” Slusher said in a recent interview with The Times.
From Los Angeles Times
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