smoking car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of smoking car
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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But if “you see men in sweatpants smoking cigarettes, hanging with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding children’s bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Surely, Jackson wrote, a state can direct doctors to discourage, and not encourage, smoking cigarettes.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
Melting into one another on the ground outside the club, smoking cigarettes, Yasmin tells Harper, “We’re here forever, even if we can’t be.”
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
Black-and-white photographs and films showed miners in hard hats and soiled uniforms as they stood smoking cigarettes, climbing into open rail cars and running machinery that scooped and loaded piles of rocks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025
Eagerly they queried Mother, drinking tea and smoking cigarettes.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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