cigarette lighter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Pereira is then seen moving the object, propping it up against the MI5 HQ doors, with a green cigarette lighter positioned nearby.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
I have the bill of sale, which lists $71 for a heater and $3.95 for the cigarette lighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2025
In a two-story split foyer home fire in Lanham in February, a cigarette lighter that accidentally lit bedding materials started a blaze, Doubleday said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
The cigarette lighter, he thought, could live on as itself, rebuilt.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
He also ran errands for the ward and in his spare time made me a cigarette lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle cartridge.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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