Sentence examples for on a fag from inspiring English sources

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His drawl is so distinctive – like Marlene Dietrich dragging on a fag.

And here she is, muss-haired and make-up-free, in pink sun-dress and Nikes, sucking on a fag in a north London pub.

They have the body of a woman and the brain of a child, or a toddler on Sunny-D, or a world-weary sea captain sucking on a fag and staring into the abyss.

The three best places to chuff on a fag, you ask?

In Britain, the situation is still worse: our most secret desire is to go to the pub in an ill-fitting suit, sink a pint of ale, puff on a fag and be a bit racist.

You're sucking on a fag, hands in your trenchcoat pockets, your posterboy face (your mug glowers darkly on wanted posters throughout the city) hidden behind the upturned collar, thinking about Flame's betrayal, if it was one, about Blue's dark machinations, the mysterious widow, her unknown whereabouts, about all the bodies you've left in your wake.

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And the White House has not really got one – just a few notes on the back of a fag packet which it announced loftily on Day Three of the Obama Era: Guantánamo would be closed and its inmates released, transferred abroad or tried.

He said: "These figures are pure scaremongering and have been cobbled together on the back of a fag packet before any agreement has even been reached on pay and reward for the next two years".

Nor do I smoke many cigarettes, since none of my narcissistic puffing selves likes this image: loitering about by wheelie-bins in alleys, whey-faced and vampiric, hanging on to a fag unto grim death.

"This is not being done on the back of a fag packet," he laughed.

I'm not doing this on the back of a fag packet".

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