smoked

past tense of smoke, slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of smoked And Zvada, with a nice wind at his back, smoked one through the uprights. Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 Hampton drank three Shiner bottled beers and two shots of whiskey at a Grand Prairie pool hall and smoked marijuana at his manager’s house in the hours before the collision, Hampton told a police officer near the scene. Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026 The lechón and smoked chicken pastor are also major attractions, often bringing entirely different clientele than the barbecue destination. Eric Ginsburg, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026 At barnyard-chic Le Garde Champêtre, Japanese chef Kazuya Miyashita weaves the organic vegetable garden’s produce into farm-to-table plates minus the fuss—simply smoked and cooked around the fire. Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2026 Sliced turkey comes in a handful of styles, including smoked, honey-roasted, pepper-crusted and herb-roasted, as well as low-sodium, organic and 95% fat-free. Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 The compounds are produced from leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia, which are crushed before being smoked, brewed with tea or placed into gel capsules. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Lexington is a small town, and Levi never smoked or used drugs. Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026 Daily cigarette smokers were characterized as those who smoked on all 30 days of the past month. Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoked
Verb
  • Arcila scored with a right-footed shot from the center of the box in the 50th, then whipped the go-ahead goal past Óscar García for his fourth goal of the tournament.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The bullet apparently whipped across the cab and struck Salgado in the stomach.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That’s because this onetime refuge of Pablo Picasso was bombed to hell less than three weeks before the official end of the Second World War.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In its kinetic war, the US has mostly bombed southern Iran, with more than 1,000 targets hit last month alone.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • No matter, seconds later Scott's corner threw multiple towels in the ring to stop the fight.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The death toll could rise because landslides triggered by the earthquake buried or cut off many remote villages across six regencies on Flores, said Fathur Rahman, who heads the Search and Rescue Office in Maumere, the capital of Sikka.
    Yacob Herin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Rescuers were still searching for villagers feared buried beneath landslides triggered by the quake across six regencies on Flores, a predominantly Catholic island in Muslim-majority Indonesia.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • There’s local cheese dusted with bee pollen from the island’s own hives.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Dinner consists of 14 courses, with plenty of flair—dramatic blowtorch sears, smoke delivered by balloon, even select cuts of fish dusted with edible glitter.
    Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The students were smart, curious and desperate to escape a communist system that had smothered their families’ ambitions for decades.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Soldiers marched the victims to bomb craters at Kamianets-Podilskyi and turned machine guns on them; they were either shot or smothered.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Clarity is the butter creamed with sugar.
    Kent Merrell, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Occasionally, the butter in quickbreads is creamed (whipped with sugar until fluffy) but more often, it’s melted or oil is used in its place.
    Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • Crowley overcame Francesca Hong in dramatic, narrow fashion in Tuesday's primary, stunning pundits and pollsters who had long placed Hong as the front-runner.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • El-Sayed overcame funding disadvantage The stark contrasts in candidate funding led to differences in advertising strategies and appeals to different groups of voters.
    Michael Traugott, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Smoked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoked. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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