Example Sentences

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We’d got all the right stuff – we had smoked salmon, a stilton in a truckle, and nobody had gone off-piste and innovated.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2019

I wondered if Duncan Dioguardi had ever had a broken-down car or if he had smoked the car, its antenna being the last piece remaining.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 3, 2018

Between 1964 and 2014, smoking rates declined by half; between 1996 and 2013, the number of eighth-graders who had smoked within the past 30 days fell from 21 percent to 4.5 percent.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2015

They gave me a plate of the most delicious salmon, which the chef had smoked on board, with a salad dressed in olive oil.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2015

He said I hadn’t wanted to see Maman, that I had smoked and slept some, and that I had had some coffee.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus