How to Use cigarette in a Sentence

cigarette

noun
  • Need more ideas on how to style cigarette jeans?
    Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 20 May 2026
  • There's no way to hide the smell of cigarettes.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Aaron smokes a cigarette just out of frame.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The bus ride home was hot and smelled of sweat and stale cigarettes.
    Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The boys step out for a cigarette to process the news of the boyfriend.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Their clothes, their house and their cars smell like cigarettes.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The best part about cigarette jeans?
    Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 20 May 2026
  • And even that is lost among all the vape-shop signs and beer and cigarette ads.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2025
  • Sealed pack of cigarettes or cigars.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Does the movie have cigarette burns on the top right of the screen as a film reel would?
    Nick Allen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The ash of the cigarette glows in the darkness of the truck.
    Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Then back home for a cold beer and a cigarette on the patio and the bed.
    Tiffany Baker, CNN, 23 May 2022
  • The man and woman then bought cigarette rolls at the counter.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The cigarette smoke hung over the upstairs kitchen like a fog.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Hiding in that progress is the rise of e-cigarettes, or vapes.
    Michael Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • His mom by then was outside, cigarettes at the ready.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The world can live without cigarettes, but the same cannot be said of food.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Do this by pairing your cigarette jeans with square-toe booties.
    Renata Joffre, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Plus the unit can run off your car’s cigarette lighter, if needed.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There were cigarette burns in the leather couches and chairs.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Her eyes were bleary, and her cigarette held on to her lip like a magic trick.
    Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Yoon’s wife slips a cigarette between her lips, then glances at my wife.
    Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • The two women sat down and rolled cigarettes.
    Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The man stood there, his face wreathed in smoke from the cigarette between his lips.
    Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor then lights a cigarette, sets the tchotchkes aflame, and fury-walks out the door.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Put the cigarette down and go outside.
    Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Andrew lost his cigarette in the mess.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • So the gas tax is just on gas, or the cigarette tax is just on cigarettes.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Try the look with a lighter wash cigarette jeans and a kitten heel ankle boot.
    Renata Joffre, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Two of the men are smoking long cigarettes, a third is in a pinstripe suit.
    Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024

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