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词汇 example_english_puff-of-smoke
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puff of smoke

collocation in English

meanings of puffand smoke


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puff
noun
uk /pʌf/ us /pʌf/
a small amount of smoke, air, or something that can rise into the air in a ...
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smoke
noun
uk /sməʊk/ us /smoʊk/
the grey, black, or white mixture of gas and very small pieces of carbon that is produced when ...
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Examples of puff of smoke


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Abstinence was defined as not a single puffofsmoke 7 days before follow-up by self-report.
An industrial soufflé that collapses at the first puffofsmoke.
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Anyway, thank goodness the voucher system seems to have vanished in a puffofsmoke—we hope for good.
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One no longer hears the chug-chug of the engine or sees a puffofsmoke against the sky line.
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Traffic does not disappear in a puffofsmoke, into thin air.
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But within a few weeks of the election, in a puffofsmoke and a flash of light, the proposal disappeared.
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No commercial operation can really make longterm decisions in the light of the fact that it is likely to disappear into a puffofsmoke every eight years.
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There was a puffofsmoke.
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Is it part of the scheme that when the result is finally known, the ballot papers should be burnt and a puffofsmoke of the appropriate colour be emitted?
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Straw is a national resource which, in the interests of our environment and conservation must be exploited and not simply burnt away in a puffofsmoke.
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If an icon is dragged and dropped vertically it will disappear with a puffofsmoke, much like the icons in the dock.
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She says that tragedy is in the air, disappearing in a puffofsmoke.
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If the number of the day was zero, the organ disappeared in a puffofsmoke.
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The dove prince flies around the palace, and through a window he sees the shepherdess, who suddenly vanishes in a puffofsmoke.
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Rook has also suggested (or threatened) that people like him are magicians, able to make people disappear in a puffofsmoke.
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She has a habit of materializing in a room without even a warning puffofsmoke.
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There was a flash (the flashcubes) and a puffofsmoke, but the firecrackers did not go off.
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Touching a puffofsmoke starts a battle.
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He showed he could teleport things in a puffofsmoke.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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