smoke screen

As we saw in November, strong fundraising numbers for Democratic Senate nominees were largely a smoke screen — many fell short despite significantly outraising their GOP opponents.

The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).

Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.

A more rugged version of American masculinity is hard to find on screen.

Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.

The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.

After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.

The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.