Sentence examples for thread of smoke from inspiring English sources

A thread of smoke twisted in the still air.

A thread of smoke rises faintly from the chimney, and the coals collapse into ash.

A spark, a thread of smoke, the smolder, the first diffident flames that gain confidence, then swell, grow barrel-chested and broad-shouldered and decide to wreck the place.

We always sleep with the window open, and occasionally, depending on meteorological conditions, our downstairs fireplace will send a furtive thread of smoke up over the house and down through the bedroom window, so this smell of burning was nothing out of the ordinary.

The lights now extinguished, a dark mass came hurtling toward us trailing a thin thread of smoke.

In Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly, standing on the veranda of Glover's home overlooking the harbor (see left), sings, "One fine day, we'll see a thread of smoke arising.... " If she could have looked north from the Glover mansion, now Nagasaki's top tourist attraction, on August 9, 1945, she would have seen, two miles in the distance, a thread of smoke with a mushroom cap.

In customary leather threads, the band performed in a flurry of smoke, flashing lights and pyrotechnics.

Bowman points to a tiny white thread far off in the forest below, a column of smoke.

There are also tweets and Reddit threads about the new feature so it's a lot of smoke.

That he is now holding the threads of some of the Kremlin's most important operations illustrates the important role of smoke and mirrors in the Kremlin and the tight-knit nature of Putin's real inner circle, analysts said.

Do they praise him for having delivered the referendum so long sought and yearned for, or do they complain that he has fixed it with smoke, mirrors and the thread of an establishment stitch-up?