smoking car

Example Sentences

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All lanes of northbound Highway 99 in the downtown Seattle tunnel briefly closed due to a smoking car blocking the right lane.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024

I’ve written about the ways our nation has slowly turned around other epidemics — smoking, car accident deaths, fire deaths.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

The New England Patriots linebacker Darius Fleming said he didn’t hesitate when he saw a woman trapped in a smoking car: he kicked out the window, enabling her to escape.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2016

Inside she found a 16-inch gold train, built to scale, complete with windows, a dining car, smoking car and first-class carriage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2014

I told my wife that in the smoking car I had met a most entertaining gentleman, who was well posted in theatricals, and was on his way to Columbus. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various