Sentence examples for perfect smokescreen from inspiring English sources

The propaganda of ethnic hatred and "splendid isolation" was a perfect smokescreen for the theft of billions of dollars' worth of state assets and the criminalisation of Serbia's economy.

In a thrilling final scene, he uses his potty-mouthed schtick to trick the giant fish into chomping down on a partially submerged electricity cable, then reveals to his amazed companions that the shark was deliberately imported by evil Mayor Vaughn in order to provide the perfect smokescreen for a coastal drug smuggling operation.

It acted as a complete smokescreen to my agnosticism, so I got away with it".

Real or a smokescreen?

Sorry is a smokescreen.

That's a smokescreen.

"It's a smokescreen.

This is all a smokescreen.

Another laugh – and another smokescreen.

He is trying to create that smokescreen".

Critics dismissed the move as a smokescreen.