cigar

Example Sentences

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I’ll continue to piece past lives together through books, phone calls and the photographs tucked into old cigar boxes under my bed.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Cigars and Stripes BBQ in Berwyn, Ill., features a Muffler Man smoking a cigar and holding a jumbo bottle of barbecue sauce.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Stopping Celtic earning 10 titles in a row was enormous but too often it was a case of close but no cigar and at Rangers, that's not good enough.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Picture a mom-and-pop store with an old cigar box for a till.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

He is seated at a table with three other men, twaddling a fat cigar between the finger and thumb of one hand and holding five fanned cards in the other.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen