How To Use Ashtray In A Sentence
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Ruth Hawkin was sitting at the kitchen table, a forgotten cigarette in the ashtray next to her transformed into three inches of marled grey ash.
A Place of Execution
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Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
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I tapped ashes from my cigarette into an ashtray on the floor and decided to take her up on the offer.
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The old pub ashtray was beautifully made and designed, produced in limited numbers and has great nostalgic value, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside, green plastic garden furniture, creaking in the sun, each empty table complete with at least one crumb from a previous occupant and a chromed ashtray not quite empty.
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She turned to Jen, who had just put her cigarette out in the ashtray beside her.
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He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
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He reached over into aii ashtray and took out a fat joint.
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The cheeky thieves replaced the photos with a Dot Cotton ashtray.
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And he was a chain-smoker, so whenever he was shooting a scene, there'd be an ashtray nearby.
Endeavour: an inspector recalled
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Where late-night casinos may still be considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells, the online community can enjoy a game without the dodgy characters or stench of ashtrays.
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Susan Gutfreund ordered a box of glass ashtrays with the design of our future palace etched into the bottoms.
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When you work in a student bar, how can you not expect to have drunk people puking, fighting and putting gum in ashtrays?
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Sara angrily ground her cigarette into the ashtray.
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I laced my fingers together, sighing and looking down at the glittering, clear, ashtray in the middle of our table.
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Somebody stole it of course, it's probably now a novelty ashtray on a coffee table in Spalding or somewhere.
Archive 2007-07-01
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He grabbed a cigar from the humidor he kept on top of his desk, bit off the end, and spit it into the ashtray.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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The rooms are filled with frou-frou frills, flowery saucers used as ashtrays, china figurines and over-gilded frames.
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On that day, throw away all your cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.
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She came up with a routine for visiting the tables, and even managed to empty a few ashtrays.
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He flicked ash into the ashtray.
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I came over to give him a hug and noticed a cigarette still burning in the ashtray on the desk.
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Soon we were above ground in a silvery twelve-seater custom van, my seatmate fiddling with a loaded ashtray, fine gray dust sprinkling his shiny black tasseled loafers.
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She calmly flicks her ash into the ashtray on the window sill and turns back towards me.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
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Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray.
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The superintendent flicked it into the ashtray with the plastic spoon and sipped the hot liquid.
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Get rid all of everything that reminds you of smoking, including ashtrays, cigarettes and lighters.
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Another set-up consisted of a glass ashtray and a packet of cigarettes.
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Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots.
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He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray near the door.
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A thief took two cotton towels, two hand towels and an ashtray from a Motel 6 in the 100 block of Airport Freeway on Monday.
Archive 2007-01-28
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Mrs Lowyer turned to look at him and saw him lean forward to tap out the pipe in the ashtray.
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She brought the square glass ashtray with the name Oglethorpe College-I 898 closer to tier.
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The full ashtrays testify that smoking hasn't been stubbed out.
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I asked who will clean up the cigarette butts, and who will provide ashtrays for people standing on the pavement and smoking.
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He moons through vast owlish specs as he plumps cushions and scurries off for an ashtray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did.
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Stretching, Padraic closed his book and put his pipe into the huge iridescent paua shell which served him as an ashtray.
The Thorn Birds
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Archer places his cigarette in an ashtray nearby and takes a drink before answering.
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Beside the chair was a table with books on it and an ashtray with a briar pipe.
SNOWJOB
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These are not astronomical sums, obviously, but it means that any silver coin in the ashtray is no longer enough to park for even the shortest duration.
It's Sunday afternoon -- don't forget to feed the meters (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays was said to represent the chaos of an artist's studio.
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If you want to work in a bar and get tips, cleaning up puke and dirty ashtrays just comes with the job.
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But in the new cover their tobacco habit has been consigned to the ashtray - the cigarettes have magically disappeared.
The Sun
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Desperate for a sign, I haul it upstairs to a bedroom, where I let a series of fags burn out in an ashtray, creating a nasty fug, then leave it on overnight.
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His website suggests that, as well as a career as a session musician (the musical equivalent of emptying ashtrays), he's started illustrating children's books.
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Using an expensive-looking ashtray as a doorstop, the teacher propped the front door open.
OUTCAST
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The maid picked up the ashtray and emptied it into a wastepaper basket.
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The new Honda Jazz is smart, nippy, surprisingly roomy - and it's got an ashtray you can pull out and pass around
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Frost lifts a fat cigar from the ashtray, and enquires politely if I mind.
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He stabbed his cigarette out in the ashtray and returned to his cabin.
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Then you actually go over and put the ashtray on the chair.
The Sun
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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She sighed and flicked ash into the ashtray beside the bed.
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If you get an ashtray for yourself (ashing in glasses can become annoying and gross) or as a gift, opt for one with a revolving center, to avoid an ash pileup - eau de cigarette is no way to freshen up a room.
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Why would they want to detract from the effect by allowing their hair and clothes to smell like a dirty ashtray and their faces to become prematurely lined?
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When he turned to rest it in the ashtray, he found two others, both his, already burning there.
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It would have made a fine ashtray for anyone who dared to smoke here.
Bomber
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The artwork, made up of empty bottles, cigarette boxes, full ashtrays and paint tins was put together by Damien Hirst.
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Well, for a start, I've only ever been a very occasional smoker - I cadge cigarettes off people when I'm very drunk and then always regret it the next morning when I not only wake up with a thumping hangover, but also with a mouth like an ashtray.
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For ceramic work, she uses earthen pots, ashtrays, glass and PVC material.
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Here are rolls of cinema moquette, squares of carpet, specially designed for particular cinema chains in patterns to die for, ashtrays, decorated seat ends, stunning light fittings, scent sprays from the 1920s.
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Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray.
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A full ashtray was in with my clothes.
The Sun
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He ground his cigarette into the ashtray.
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The field is an ashtray of burnt-out parascience.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were ashtray bins on many street-corners, and scarcely any butts on the ground.
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Smoking from the age of 16 means that I have spent a fortune over 24 years to smell like an ashtray, damage my health and feel like a social leper.
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A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer.
She Closed Her Eyes
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He was a ceramic chemist who, among other accomplishments, produced the first piece of corning ware (an ashtray, which mother kept on display until a rambunctious child – not me – dropped and broke it one day).
Stromata Blog:
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Upon returning home, Giovanni can't help but notice the chips in the ashtrays and teapots, the scratches on the countertops.
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Get rid all of everything that reminds you of smoking, including ashtrays, cigarettes and lighters.
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If you leave such a cigarette in an ashtray unattended, it will extinguish itself.
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Scott put out his cigarette in the ashtray, and wiped his hand across his forehead, pushing back his fringe.
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Duncan was coming closer with the brush and a big bucket, emptying ashtrays and mopping things.
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One of the staff brings a new pack to the table and empties his ashtray.
Times, Sunday Times
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My wages have to go towards rent and other essentials, but no, after last week I should have run out and bought some shagpile carpets, funky ashtrays and pants with tigers printed on them.
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I emptied the sweet wrappers from the ashtray.
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The superintendent flicked it into the ashtray with the plastic spoon and sipped the hot liquid.
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Sadly,the 1&6 trick didn't work; no stickers found anywhere in or on the vehicle, ashtray, cup-holder or glove-box; neither within the paperwork. the last owner sold this vehicle to me has been reconditioning serviced.
Honda will not let me steal my own radio (but someone else could)
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He drank the rest of his cup of coffee and ground out the cigarette in the ashtray.
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This is beginning to stink as bad as an old ashtray.
The Sun
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She threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray.
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Mrs Lowyer turned to look at him and saw him lean forward to tap out the pipe in the ashtray.
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Marlene stubbed out her cigarette in the ashtray upon the low coffee table.
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If I give them a bag of nickels and an ashtray full of cigarette butts, will they tell me my future?
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She stubbed out the cigarette she had just lit, and dropped it into her ashtray, ‘There.’
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I woke up with a stonking headache and a throat like an ashtray.
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Mrs Lowyer turned to look at him and saw him lean forward to tap out the pipe in the ashtray.
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Cigarette packs, ashtrays and lighters graced the entire length of the bar, except for the area in front of my partner and me.
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There were cigarette ashtrays on the sides of the two bins outside the Court House.
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I came over to give him a hug and noticed a cigarette still burning in the ashtray on the desk.
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Soon we were above ground in a silvery twelve-seater custom van, my seatmate fiddling with a loaded ashtray, fine gray dust sprinkling his shiny black tasseled loafers.
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When the cleaners have gone home I trek through the rubber-tread corridors rolling on my faces like a marble ashtray.
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She located an ashtray on the chest of drawers and stubbed out her cigarette.
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Duncan was coming closer with the brush and a big bucket, emptying ashtrays and mopping things.
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His expression glum, Inspector Norizuki turned his eyes to the ashtray on the table.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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The only thing moving was the dancing smoke from a dying cigarette in an ashtray on a table.
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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I place an ashtray on the bed in front of her then lean over for a kiss.
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The cubbyhole was hanging open and so was the ashtray, neither of which I ever use unless I am transporting contraband.
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The busy staff showed us to our table decorated with a spilt ashtray and cigarette burns.
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He watched his cigarette die in the ashtray.
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There were several bottles on the table and an ashtray full of cigarettes creating a thick, smoky haze.
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Lipstick-stained cigarettes overflowed in the ashtray on the table and on top of the television.
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Around them, ashtrays overflow, piled high, one on top of the other.
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Almost worse, he says, was the insult of troops upending ashtrays, of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them, and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.
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It is NOT the fault of the ideas but the form they are presented (i.e. steak served in ashtray).
SolveClimate: Biochar and George Monbiot’s Misguided Rant
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His legendary charisma is decidedly deflated, not only by the smallness of his head on the TV screen, but by the presence of what appears to be an ashtray on top of the set.
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He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.
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Malachi drank the rest of his cup of coffee and ground out the cigarette in the ashtray.
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The busy staff showed us to our table decorated with a spilt ashtray and cigarette burns.
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There were ashtrays all around the house with half smoked blunts.
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A briarwood pipe is cold in the ashtray on his neatly arranged desk, and the faint aroma of aromatic tobacco always lingers.
Predator
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I put the ashtray in the center of the coffee table and reached into the carton under the table to grab a pack of Marlboro Menthols.
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She is the woman with the lapis-lazuli ashtray in her all-white bathroom.
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His mice are to be found everywhere: scurrying across church pews and altars, sitting on oak ashtrays, inside clock cases and on oak bookends, even peeking out from beneath oak dining tables and chairs designed for grand country homes.
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They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs.
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The new range for Lindley includes Martini glasses, decanters and ashtrays.
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Duncan was coming closer with the brush and a big bucket, emptying ashtrays and mopping things.
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He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
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One of the staff brings a new pack to the table and empties his ashtray.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of them cleverly decorates a vase by drawing plant leaves using a sharp pin, while another shapes small frog-like figures to be put on ashtrays.
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Here was a guy who would use barstools, beer bottles, ashtrays, lit cigarettes or anything else he could get his hands on in a fight.
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He watched silently and impassively, chewing his overdone steak, and retrieving his cigarette from the ashtray between courses.
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And about a knickknack made from a crocodilian reptile known as a caiman, posed with a pipe in its mouth and an ashtray in its claws.
Uncle Sam Wants You to Bid on This Fine Weasel Fur Coat
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There were end tables with lamps and ashtrays on them by the couch.
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A fire safety blog produced by the Montgomery County fire department includes this warning: Do not use old planter pots that contain potting soil as an ashtray ...
Cigarette started fire that burned five Manassas homes, officials say
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I'd like to have a full-size spare wheel and an ashtray.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea is that smokers use the ashtrays instead of dropping cigarette ends on the streets, saving the council thousands of pounds in clean-up bills.
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He tossed his cig in the ashtray and brought me in close for a kiss.
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All ashtrays must be removed and provision made at the entrance to premises where cigarettes can be stubbed out.
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The superintendent flicked it into the ashtray with the plastic spoon and sipped the hot liquid.
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March 28, 2008 at 1:58 pm ai dint hab sisturs so no taky ashtrays. 3 dorturs, 2 yungurz gibz takines. tu eech tu nuddurz sumtiemz saim fing dey fined difrunt stawrz. almos jeenyus sumteimz
SLINKY CAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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A compartment on the fascia panel in place of the ashtray can store cassettes, CDs or a mobile phone.
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There were waiters everywhere, coming and going all during the meal, emptying ashtrays, filling our glasses of water.
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Even toss out that emergency pack you have stashed in the secret pocket of your backpack. Get rid of your ashtrays and lighters, too.
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It would have made a fine ashtray for anyone who dared to smoke here.
Bomber
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The cigarette burned slowly in the ashtray.
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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Never leave a smoking substance in an ashtray and walk away from it.
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Beside the chair was a table with books on it and an ashtray with a briar pipe.
SNOWJOB
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She threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray.
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Guess I should think about getting a new one, but the 50 pesos I keep in the ashtray is my temporary insurance in the meantime.
Mordida re-visited
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I've broken all the ugly ashtrays and pots.
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Sebastian took one last puff on his cigarette before plucking it from his mouth, and grinding it into the ashtray.
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One of the staff brings a new pack to the table and empties his ashtray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ravenswood Antique Mall has several sweet selections, but one thing that jumped off the shelf at me was a small Heath Ceramics ashtray from the 50's.
June 2008
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He does not look at her but places his cigarette in the ashtray.
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Besides the various tobacco products, all sorts of implements from tobacco pipes, lighters and ashtray to tobacco cases and machines can be found in this diverse and impressive collection.
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I stubbed out my cigarette in the big glass ashtray on Santis's desk.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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Where late-night casinos may still be considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells, the online community can enjoy a game without the dodgy characters or stench of ashtrays.
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Her first stop is a connivence store where she picks up the better part of a six pack of Dogfish Head--proving that she has great taste-- using the change scraped together from her car's ashtray: proving she is completely unprepared for what has happened.
Turnstyle: [AFI Fest Review] The Dish & The Spoon
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On that day, throw away all your cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.
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It also means the staff do not have to put up with going home smelling like an ashtray.
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In the ashtray is an almost entirely unsmoked cigarette, stubbed out.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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I know you're tipping me, so maybe I have to do this to earn my tip, but gum and lemons, don't leave them in the ashtrays unless they're wrapped up in something.
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Brigg nodded his thanks, setting his cig on the edge of a nearby ashtray and blowing on the scalding stew before taking a bite.
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The driver flicked his cigarette butt toward an ashtray and missed.
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She stabbed her cigarette into the ashtray.
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If a guy is hanging out by the patio heaters and the wall-mounted ashtrays, he smokes, or at least it doesn't bother him if you do.
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The cheeky thieves replaced the photos with a Dot Cotton ashtray.
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He stubbed out his cigar in the malachite ashtray and leaned forward, putting his bulky forearms on the shiny desktop.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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The only thing that was inside was a pack of cigarettes, an ashtray, and a lighter.
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He drew deeply on a cigarette, stubbing it afterwards in an ashtray which held an extraordinary number of butts.
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He lay the half-burnt cig across the ashtray, saving it for later.
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This is beginning to stink as bad as an old ashtray.
The Sun
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A cigarette is still pluming in the ashtray.
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This is beginning to stink as bad as an old ashtray.
The Sun
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Or Martin Honeysett's grisly depiction of a fat, slatternly woman watching TV while surrounded by a mess of ashtrays, empty beer cans and fast food boxes.
Simon Hoggart's week: We won't be taken for a ride, cabbies
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I ground my cigarette into the ashtray.
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The brightly-colored corollas accompanying the pair won't stand daylight: dingy and perishable as moth-wings burned to ashtray dust, at dawn when the neons, laundry-bright the previous dusk, are dull and soiled.
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I looked down at the little ashtray on his gold coloured hostess trolley, two lonely pound coins looked back up at me, so i ferreted around in my pocket for something smaller.
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A wide range of miniatures like dainty chariots, idols of Lord Ganesha, crystal pens, pen stands, paperweights, ashtrays that were shaped like leaves and a charging bull were some of the items that could be suitable as gift items.
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They were not furniture to store dance bags, substitute barres, or places to park ashtrays, coffee cups, and soda cans.
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Two wooden chairs, metal drip trays, glass ashtrays and glasses were thrown at another member of staff who hid for cover behind the bar, and also at the kitchen door.
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He sits on the eighth step, places a porcelain ashtray to the side of his bare feet and lights an American Spirit.
Michael Cunningham and a new generation of writers transcend 'gay literature'
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He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray.
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The three ashtrays were overflowing with cigarette butts on the desk and on the deck.
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Davidson took another hit of the Marlboro and then snubbed it out in the ashtray.
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Ask the spectator to put the ashtray in the centre of the table.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom knocked out his foul pipe into a smouldering ashtray, fished some dirty reading glasses out of his pocket, and took the letter to a wall lamp by the big inglenook fireplace.
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They made the ashtrays on the walls beside the elevators in the Grand Hotel.
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Mog and Kenn got two new ashtrays, horse brasses and some waterproofs.
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Main product: Wine class 、 Drinking glass 、 Candlestick 、 Ashtray 、 Perfume Bottle 、 Fruit 、 Fruit tray 、 Vase 、 And so on.
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Three years ago he created an impromptu piece in a gallery window - it included empty bottles, cigarette boxes and filthy ashtrays.
