How to Use cigarette in a Sentence

cigarette

noun
Definition of cigarettenext
  • Dark circular scars mark the spots on his legs where his captors pressed lit cigarettes into his flesh.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The sales tax on a pack of cigarettes will increase by $1.25, to $5 per pack.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • PAHs are also found in cigarette smoke and car exhaust.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 29 July 2024
  • And the guy just looked so elated that somebody would, A) talk to him, or B) even offer him a cigarette.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 23 Apr. 2024
  • White pouches similar in size to a piece of chewing gum send more nicotine than what’s in a cigarette right into the bloodstream.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 27 July 2024
  • While my father made frantic telephone calls, my mother was often pacing in the back yard, smoking cigarettes.
    — Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Marooned on his plastic stool, Mr. Yan Naing Htoo sucked on his cigarette.
    — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Overhead, the large air filtering machines installed to help diffuse cigarette smoke inside the bar hum.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The idea for the brand came about when he was told by his cousin that hookah is almost worse than smoking cigarettes, something a young 19-year-old Bradley had no awareness of.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The devices entered the scene in the early 2000s as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 12 Apr. 2024
  • As many as 85% of Black smokers smoke menthol cigarettes – a health risk that also explains why lung cancer rates run highest in that community.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 26 Apr. 2024
  • While cancer is a common diagnosis among cigarette smokers, health professionals say e-cigarettes haven't been around long enough to say if the same is true for vaping.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • There’s no question the popularity of vapes is accelerating the rate of cigarette volume decline.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 21 July 2024
  • Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks transforms her Oscars gown by swapping out the white skirt for cigarette pants.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The main economic activity was smuggling: alcohol and cigarettes went from Spain to France, and clothes, clocks, tea, and embroidery went the other way.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Particularly for kids under 4, avoiding cigarette smoke, synthetic fabrics, nonlatex foams, polyurethanes and some paints may be advised.
    — Ian Myles, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Does the movie have cigarette burns on the top right of the screen as a film reel would?
    — Nick Allen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Forced to sell cigarettes on the street to get by, the 56-year-old blacksmith is angry.
    — Nabih Bulos and A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At the time, Mack was on his porch smoking a cigarette.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • She had been invited to smoke cigarettes in the trees on the far side of the running track.
    — Karen Kicak, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the men are smoking long cigarettes, a third is in a pinstripe suit.
    — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Their clothes, their house and their cars smell like cigarettes.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • So the gas tax is just on gas, or the cigarette tax is just on cigarettes.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Then there was Trotter, a cigarette made by and for pigs.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Plus the unit can run off your car’s cigarette lighter, if needed.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Traci walked through the lot beside her, jumpy, the cigarette still behind her ear.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The New York Times wrote that Sorkin, once a heavy smoker who saw the habit as part of the writing process, quit cigarettes after the health scare.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • On a midday run for Pepsi and cigarettes, Sicard took a video of palm trees bowing in the heavy winds.
    — Karin Brulliard and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Adding Bronny James to the Lakers would be like lighting up a cigarette at the gas pump.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • One day, Eun-hee’s father walked into the shop to buy cigarettes.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023

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