cigarette

Example Sentences

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The cigarette maker plans to cut about 5,500 jobs by the end of the year, on top of around 3,500 roles that it moved to outsourcing partners including Accenture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

At Hockney’s 70th-birthday party at Tate Britain in London, Sykes’s biography recounts, the museum’s smoke detectors were turned off for 10 minutes after dinner so the guest of honor could have a cigarette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

After dinner, it was announced that the smoke alarms would be turned off for 10 minutes to allow Britain's Greatest Living Artist a cigarette.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

Electrical equipment, unattended camp fires, cigarette butts and arson have rapidly increased the interval of fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Instead of producing my silver cigarette case, he produces my velvet coin purse and my heart stops for a moment before I launch across the room to snatch it out of his hands.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse