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

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

Tolkan was also well known for drilling Maverick and Goose with swift reprimands and tough love between puffs of his cigar as their commanding officer, Tom “Stinger” Jardian, in the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

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

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

I pulled out my cigar box and sifted through it until I came across Jemma’s most recent letter, sent at Christmastime.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan