Sentence examples for screen of smoke from inspiring English sources

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Their own rituals involve traversing a screen of smoke — passing into another zone.

Today, those eyes seem a screen of smoke or steel; she has a faraway gaze even when she is looking straight at you.

The blaze, which broke out about 3 40 a.m., trapped three mothers and four daughters behind a thick screen of smoke, and several were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

Fire officials said the home did not have smoke detectors, and witnesses said the three mothers and four daughters apparently found themselves trapped behind a thick screen of smoke when they tried to escape.

Those divisions have dug formidable defensive obstacles that include revetments and trenches filled with oil that, when set on fire, would form an obscuring and choking screen of smoke, the officer said.

Margaret Sullivan, an American living in Valencia, says there's nothing like it in the U.S. "It builds to a crescendo behind a screen of smoke and is very exciting.

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The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke," Giovannoni told the Telegraph in 2008.

"No sooner was I in the moment, snapping away, when my translator pointed out the Mukhabarat — the secret police — lurking in the corner behind a screen of argillah smoke," Brooks told me.

On the left of CNN's screen were plumes of smoke where the World Trade Center used to be; on the right, smoke billowed from the Pentagon.

The Gameover Zeus botnet, then, is a sort of smoke screen to keep things under cover until the hack is over.

"The messages coming in all kinds of strange ways, all of these things are a kind of smoke screen that just shows that Israel's recent policy toward Palestinian terror is bearing fruit," Mr. Ramon told Army Radio.

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