Example Sentences

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Read: ‘Story’ stocks are smoking hot in 2025.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025

Fewer people in the UK are smoking than ever before - around 13%.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024

Yet down in the red zone, the BBQs are smoking, the music is pumping, and the convoy rolls on, for now.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2022

Criminal justice reform advocates said that is not because more people are smoking marijuana in those areas.

From New York Times • May 13, 2018

Also, the country house owner, who discovers that furnace or fireplace flues which have heretofore functioned properly are smoking, should investigate the circumstances without delay.

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank