Sentence examples for to smokescreen from inspiring English sources

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to smokescreen

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Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.

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"I had to sit in a 'raid' [internet chat] room for three weeks collecting the hows and whys of what happened, people talking about how to smokescreen it, how to pull other people in, about how to make counter-arguments – all the while, they were targeting members of my family and sending naked pictures of me to my dad".

I'm sick of their bullshit and fucking with humanity's lives as if we are just a bunch of disposable toys to them!" I'm glad Miss Tequila excused herself for her explicit language – it's nice to have a disclaimer to smokescreen anything potentially offensive – but some punctuation would have been nice.

Add the requirement to reveal whether a person's birthday has passed or not, and most knowing individuals will come to the conclusion that you are just using the chocolate to smokescreen the actual calculations taking place.

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"The government has been caught out proposing something unconstitutional and the prime minister has lashed out with his trademark dishonesty to try to create a smokescreen to cover his internal dissent.

At one point, Isis set fire to buildings in order to create a smokescreen to protect them from US aircraft.

The munitions, typically used to illuminate a battlefield or to create a smokescreen to mask troop movements, will be replaced with a new type of shell that uses gas, the military said.

Back to the self-serving speech: it was obvious that Bishop Bling's goal was to create a smokescreen to obscure the alleged gay fling.

Similar arguments made during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when currencies and stock markets collapsed in much of Southeast Asia, turned out to be a smokescreen to protect the executives who were partly responsible for the mess.

On Sunday, his lawyers, Elisabeth Meyer and Christian Charrière-Bournazel, accused the bank's maccusednthef wanting to "raise a smokescreen to divert pubank attention from far more substantial losses in the last few months," notably in the area of subprime mortgage investments.

"I think she's tried using her pregnancy to put a smokescreen to give some justification for the driver's action.

Often the motivation gurus talk about creating great wealth so that you can then support charities, but I have a sense this is more to create a smokescreen to cover up a special brand of selfishness.

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