cigarette lighter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Most of these kids have never seen an ashtray or a car cigarette lighter before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
The concert footage shows thousands of fans holding their lit-up mobile phones aloft, as the band play their hit Tender, doing the job once reserved for a cigarette lighter.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
The one they used cost about $1000, is the size of a cigarette lighter and plugs into a laptop like a flash drive.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
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
He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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