Sentence examples for like smokescreen from inspiring English sources

Apparently, over the years, a bunch of these terms, including sexy stuff like "smokescreen" were deemed acceptable after all.

But the attacks on people of color, both abroad and home, look less and less like an effort to protect his supporters and more and more like a smokescreen for policies that will leave them ― along with most poor and middle-class Americans ― worse off than they were before.

Johnson said the decision was looking like "a smokescreen for a U-turn on Heathrow".

He jumped up and grabbed a mannequin wearing a half-completed Art Deco-inspired gold lamé dress with black tulle layered on it like a smokescreen.

Once again, the supposedly high-principled rhetoric of the "war against terror" is being made to look like a smokescreen for a highly selective pursuit of American vendettas.

The idea of some guy in his mid 40s, with glasses and a beard, his expensive decks and his camper van outside... it's like a smokescreen for boring men who used to be interesting when they were young.

Macdonald said: "The sad truth is Clarke's comments look like a smokescreen for plans which are aimed not at keeping the British people safe but at sparing the embarrassment of the security services when they get mixed up in wrongdoing".

It's a rather curious statement on politics that the issue that was so impossible for our government to acknowledge suddenly seems like a smokescreen.

And although Hare took pains to differentiate his hero, George Jones, from Labour leader Neil Kinnock by making him a London-born bachelor, it seemed like a careful smokescreen.

Although he may indeed have played a part in the assassination - either willingly or under duress - his involvement, from what is known so far, looks like a deliberate smokescreen aimed at deflecting attention from the real killers.

"This seems like Iranian tactics: they would like to put up a smokescreen and link things that can't be linked".