How To Use Smoke-filled In A Sentence
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Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'.
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On the night of June 11-12, a group of party elders gathered in "a smoke-filled room" in the Blackstone Hotel and made the deal that brought Harding the nomination on the tenth ballot.
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Fire swept through a multi-storey nursing home in eastern India on Friday morning, killing at least 35 people and trapping many more elderly residents in the smoke-filled building, an official said.
Fire kills 20 at Indian nursing home
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There was a card table in the centre of the smoke-filled room with five chairs positioned around it.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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smoke-filled rooms
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On the one hand, the photograph gives us a hint of what it feels like to be a power broker whose milieu is the smoke-filled room, or an insider who manages the campaign from the sidelines.
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The smoke-filled room was invaded by sexy, sensual snarls of guitars and harmonicas and a fantastic drumming beat throughout.
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In Turkey, smoke-filled village coffeehouses will soon become a hazy memory of the country's past.
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This was the Golden Age of sports, and McMahon was exposed to it all as an Irish moppet, wide-eyed by it all in the excitement of smoke-filled arenas.
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like setting someone a deadline to give up smoking, and then pushing them into a smoke-filled bar where all the walls are lined with cigarette machines.
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First, the film ‘Smokescreen’ by ‘Unknown’ featuring a man walking into a series of smoke-filled rooms — we never see his face as it is either obscured by smoke, or he is filmed from the side or behind.
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The smoke-filled room was invaded by sexy, sensual snarls of guitars and harmonicas and a fantastic drumming beat throughout.
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He used his talents for the smoke-filled room to head a minority government with consummate political skill.
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Men tilting their pints and liquor gurgling out of the neck of the bottles in a steamy smoke-filled American pub.
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We all have our little vices, and mine don't happen to include standing in smoke-filled rooms peering at screens as faraway horses with strange sounding names slog it out in the 3.30 at Johannesburg.
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It's the people God and Jesus love: the greedy, smelly, selfish, winebibbing, note-cribbing, pride-filled, smoke-filled, hate-filled men and women who live here on planet earth.
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air out the smoke-filled rooms
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These photographs were obtained by illuminating a very thin layer of a smoke-filled boundary layer.
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The punches thudded through the smoke-filled air of the MEN Arena with excruciating force.
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Until this time, most of the population lived in dark, smoke-filled cottages heated by open fires kindled in the centre of an ‘open hall’.
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The whole business stinks of political corruption and decisions made in smoke-filled rooms.
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Until then, most politicians were fearful of letting journalists into their smoke-filled rooms or on their campaign trains.
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He was a diplomat; he liked negotiation and conclusions, not shouting matches in smoke-filled rooms which went nowhere.
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The firefighters wore respirators to help them breathe in the smoke-filled house.
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As our sleepiness dissipated into the dank pre-dawn air, we funneled out of the darkness into the foreboding cigarette smoke-filled briefing room.
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The cameras allow firefighters to find victims in smoke-filled buildings, discover hot spots that point to a fire's origin, and warn of deadly flashovers before they occur.
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He pulled on the headlights, and the beams cut into the darkness, solid bars of light in the smoke-filled air.
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Some passengers used emergency chutes while others clambered down wings in what they described as a chaotic scene in the smoke-filled ravine.
Jet-Crash Clues: Crosswind, Brakes
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I really must go by myself," she declared as they sat in the smoke-filled taverna, waiting for the second act of flamenco to begin.
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We sat down, noting with interest the cold drafts blowing hard through an airless smoke-filled room.
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These photographs were obtained by illuminating a very thin layer of a smoke-filled boundary layer.
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So, from a blurred photocopy of a fax that was passed on to our source by a friendly flic in a smoke-filled bar in Montmartre and then dictated over an iffy phone link, here is the speech.
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The name rasped from her smoke-filled lungs, barely audible.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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A noisy smoke-filled room is not the best environment to work in.
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Somewhere-maybe in the smoke-filled rooms of the Knickerbocker Club-there was a collective decision to raise the stakes.
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The bullets found easy victims and a constellation of flashing lights lit up the smoke-filled cabin, accompanied by a staccato roar.
