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Meanings of thick smoke in English

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Usage of thick smoke in English
1
She told Morning Report she saw thick smoke coming from the boat.
Radio NZ
2
There, he found his parents' 140-year-old wooden house full of thick smoke.
Radio NZ
3
It was shrouded in thick smoke after being attacked by fire bombs.
News.com.au
4
Another described panic after thick smoke seeped into a factory supplying Puma.
The Guardian
5
Across the strait rose a thick smoke from the foot of the glen.
A Sea Queen's Sailing
6
A thick smoke of frankincense darkened the room and almost extinguished the lights.
The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
7
We first descried it enveloped in a thick smoke or fog.
Travels in England in 1782
8
The cloud of thick smoke was shot through with red gleams.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
9
As the flames caught the sulphur, a thick smoke rolled away.
In Search of the Okapi / A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
10
But thick smoke was now added to the night's natural obscurity.
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
11
Fog-horns, whistles, etc., may be similarly employed during fogs or amid thick smoke.
Masters of Space / Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cab...
12
Within minutes, witnesses say, thick smoke and flames were leaping into the sky.
News.com.au
13
Would you even have seen it through the thick smoke enveloping the capital?
The Guardian
14
The connecting creeks pump thick smoke from the locally built crude oil burners.
Reuters
15
He can't see the soldiers through the firelight and thick smoke.
Night of knives
16
Planes and helicopters involved in firefighting were temporarily grounded by the thick smoke.
Reuters
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Thick smoke through the time
Thick smoke across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common
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