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.