Sentence examples for throw smoke from inspiring English sources

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throw smoke

verb

To consistently pitch fastballs that are difficult to hit.

  • He has been throwing smoke all game.

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For one thing it doesn't explain why, short of using lethal force, the police didn't fire warning shots or throw smoke bombs.

The text is profuse, the characters spin out seemingly endless skeins of talk, and it's slotted into the action to tell stories — stories that, for the most part, throw smoke in the other characters' eyes.

Once the American response began to build and the Taliban firing subsided, Lieutenant Rodriguez told Lieutenant Smith, they would throw smoke grenades along the river bank and pull back.

In the interview, the juror said that the officers wanted "to throw smoke and dust in the eyes of the investigators, plant enough reasonable doubt in the record so a jury wouldn't be able to find anybody other than Volpe guilty of anything".

They were to throw smoke and dust into the air to irritate the garrison.Francione p. 169.

(e.g. White people can't dance) Throw smoke grenades at other snipers on your team.

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They were throwing smoke grenades".

The platoon threw smoke grenades, obscuring visibility in the riverbed.

Tim Lincecum, all spilling locks and whipsaw arm, throwing smoke in Games 1 and 5.

Witnesses said doctors operated on dining tables as riot police threw smoke grenades through the windows.

In 1966 protestors threw smoke bombs during Beatrix's marriage to Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat who had belonged to the Hitler Youth as a teenager.

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