Example Sentences

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If flames are allowed to break ranks and surge forward, they can whirl around and start running with the wind, burning more intensely and smokily than the prescription allows.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

The second section, “Seven in the Woods,” its title drawn from a Jim Harrison poem, feels like Mr. Wooley’s aria, his playing smokily soft.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

Yet Braxton periodically introduced an abbreviated, smokily lyrical bit of melody.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

But as this smokily poignant scene shows, both were radical painters of modern life.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

A peat fire burned smokily in the large fireplace against one wall, and the smoke trickled out of the chimney far above.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman