Example sentences for: smokes

How can you use “smokes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.

  • Every time someone eats a piece of cake (or smokes a cigarette), they are implicitly trading "future life minutes" for current sensual pleasures.

  • He rarely washes, smokes and drinks too much (amongst other similar vices), and spends the time he's not watching infomercials until 4 a.m., pining over a girl who broke up with him long ago.

  • Your roommate is an unemployed, unmotivated, slovenly vidiot who smokes and drinks while being fixated on a long gone girlfriend.

  • The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Please: Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.


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