Sentence examples for cigarette stubs from inspiring English sources

The term "cigarette stubs" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the smoldering remains of a cigarette after it has been smoked. For example, "The wind blew, scattering the cigarette stubs across the park."

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He had me at the Indian women with cigarette stubs behind their ears.

And keep your cigarette stubs in a jam-jar full of water.

Behind them chattering couples occupy tables in the shade; cigarette stubs are underfoot.

The paintings were littered with depictions of cigarette stubs, liquor bottles, naked light bulbs, brick walls, an old teakettle.

Small, surprisingly realistic cigarette stubs put in regular appearances, made, it seems, from real filter paper and tiny strips of gray tube socks.

Much later, during their long (and explicitly unphysical) reconnection, he stows away Fusun's cigarette stubs, a saltshaker from her dinner table, a quince grater from her kitchen.

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A cigarette stub sits in the corner of his mouth.

At P.S. l, for example, there's a cigarette stub, handsomely framed and labeled "Cigarette Smoked by Willem de Kooning, May 15 , 1970.

"I ride on a bus," she said, "and when I see a man picking up a cigarette stub, I throw a cigar in front of him".

"She ground the cigarette stub under her heel, like the serpent in Eden, and began to decant two disabled elderly women".

Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.

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