Example Sentences

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The Shrouded had wrapped its now smokelike arms around Thorn and was pulling her into it.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

"Social . . ." "What?" they yelled. ". . . equality —" The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Yes, it was a grayish something, a smokelike Essence that was being drawn from the cranial cavity.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry

From it again put forth the tentacles, cupping their heads, but the smokelike essence flowed back to them this time, and with it flowed a tiny threadlike stream of violet light.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry

Ragged, smokelike clouds hung over the valley at Thirty-Mile, dragged so low by their own weight that they not only hid the upper peaks but shrouded the lower ridges as well.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry