Example Sentences

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Earlier, Moshi had been smoking out killer bees from their hive for honey.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2022

Holmes’s DNA was obtained when detectives conducting surveillance saw him toss out a cigar he had been smoking and a can of beer he had been drinking.

From Fox News • Dec. 19, 2018

He did not offer a confession, but he left behind something nearly as damaging: his DNA on the butt of a cigarette he had been smoking.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2011

John J. Stinson, 68, said he had been smoking for more than three decades when he decided to apply for a job at Cleveland Clinic, helping incoming patients, nearly three years ago.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2011

They had been smoking silently—a silence only broken by the occasional hiss of expectoration against the hot stove, when the door of a back room opened softly, and Gabriel Conroy entered.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert