SMOKING in a Sentence

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For SMOKING, below is one of 322 sentences:
He did not even come to her to give her his usual offhand kiss but stood looking at her, with a grin, a smoking cigar in his hand.

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 Meanings and Examples of SMOKING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
smoking
 a.  emitting smoke in great volume
 n.  a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A queasiness of the stomach reminiscent of the early days of her pregnancy made the smoking yams on the breakfast table unendurable, even to the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  Behind him lay the smoking ruins of Atlanta to which the torch had been set as the blue army tramped out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  The room seemed so empty without the four great Tarleton boys, lounging and smoking and teasing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Gerald, Will and Ashley sat about the room smoking, smiling at the feminine tumult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  He did not even come to her to give her his usual offhand kiss but stood looking at her, with a grin, a smoking cigar in his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
7  The bed was tumbled and unmade and he sat on it, unshaven and suddenly gaunt, endlessly smoking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
8  But his box contained only a line of rapturous assent from Gerty, and he was turning away disappointed when he was hailed by a voice from the smoking room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  She thought of smoking a cigarette, to shock them, and dismissed the obscene thought before it was quite formed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Above it was a loft which Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock, young brother of Harry, used as a den, for smoking, hiding from whippings, and planning secret societies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  More dangerous than the cancer that will certainly get me at fifty unless I stop this smoking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
13  But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
15  But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
16  The company denies, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that smoking causes cancer.
17  Cigarette smoking is the single most important cause of lung cancer.
18  The cancer risks associated with smoking have been well documented.
19  It's a fact that most deaths from lung cancer are caused by smoking.
20  She finds it difficult to stop smoking.
21  Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
22  Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina.
23  Everybody is aware of the hazards of smoking.
24  The search for other kinds of evidence tying him to trafficking has not produced a smoking gun.
25  It is a fact that smoking is a danger to health.
26  Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for this disease.
27  Studies have established that smoking is a risk factor for cancer.
28  Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.
29  Advertising is a potent force in showing smoking as a socially acceptable habit.
30  It is generally believed that smoking is harmful to health.