cigarette dangles

Frequency: 5.54.2 per million words

a cigarette hanging loosely, often from the lips

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Examples (10)

  • A cigarette dangled from his lips as he stared into the distance.
  • An unlit cigarette dangled from the corner of her mouth, a sign of her nonchalant attitude.
  • He spoke in a low voice, a half-smoked cigarette dangling precariously from his fingers.
  • The old detective listened intently, a cigarette constantly dangling from his lower lip.
  • She let the cigarette dangle while she searched for her keys in her purse.
  • Even when he laughed, the cigarette would somehow dangle from his mouth without falling.
  • In the old black-and-white film, a cigarette dangles from the hero's mouth in almost every scene.
  • It's a nervous habit of his; you'll often see a cigarette dangling from his hand.
  • The ash grew long on the cigarette that dangled, forgotten, from his lips.
  • A hand-rolled cigarette dangled between his teeth as he concentrated on his work.