How to Use smoke out in a Sentence

smoke out

verb
  • Militants lit tires on fire and wheeled them into homes to smoke out families that were in hiding, according to other officers who arrived at the scene that day.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • To nail the perfect rib-eye without smoking out your friends or ruining such a splurge, reverse-reverse sear by developing a crust first on the stovetop, then letting the meat become tender in a low oven.
    Genevieve Ko, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The wind will also keep smoke out of the Prescott and Prescott Valley areas.
    Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Seeps and cracks in the dirt spew grey smoke out into the surrounding area.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 10 Jan. 2023
  • For her eye makeup, Mayo smoked out a sharp black wing on Lizzo's lids.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 17 Mar. 2023
  • So, Prince puts some land up for sale to smoke out the potential buyer.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The goal should be a light bluish smoke out of the exhaust pipe, or ideally, nothing at all outside the heat waves.
    Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 1 June 2020
  • Crews used a fan to clear the smoke out of the building and eventually let workers back inside.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 15 June 2021
  • Skies in the region are expected to clear up in the coming days as winds carry the wildfire smoke out over the Atlantic.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The pizza ovens’ exhaust hoods, which help direct smoke out of the building, also bring in hot air from the outside.
    New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • This week, New York City got smoked out … in a very bad, extremely toxic way by Canada of all places.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • It’s designed to reduce smoke so you don’t get smoked out and sucks in oxygen from below, blasting hot air over the fire.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • On Friday, a cold front is likely to push some of the smoke out of the Rockies, providing a window of clear viewing.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But a shift in winds and other conditions was expected to push smoke out of the region from west to east, the agency said.
    Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
  • There’s really not a lot of smoke out there right now in regard to Craig Smith’s open assistant spot.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Daley smoked out dark pigments on her lids and waterline area.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 June 2023
  • The strong cold front moving through Wednesday night is expected to clear out the skies behind it as the front ushers the surface level smoke out of the region.
    Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • Though Landor and Poe are united in their efforts to smoke out the murderer, there’s mistrust between them too.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The eyeliner was also easy to smoke out with a small smudge brush, but not as mobile as the cream shadow, which ensured that the kohl liner would stay put throughout the night.
    Lindsey Metrus, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Air quality was on the rebound Sunday morning in the Bay Area, with skies starting to clear in many parts of the region as winds helped push wildfire smoke out of the region.
    Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Fine particle levels will begin to improve Tuesday as southerly winds start moving the smoke out of the state.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • Some residents left their homes to escape the smoke and others resorted to DIY air purifiers and using painters’ tape to seal their windows and doors to keep the smoke out.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Through today, the smoke is expected to disperse with time especially across the Midwest and the Ohio Valley after rounds of thunderstorms that will help take some of the smoke out of the air.
    NBC News, 29 June 2023
  • Last year, a Maryland house went up in flames after a man tried to smoke out a snake infestation with coal, causing $1 million in damage, the Guardian reported at the time.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Paca frequently says, shimmying his giant shoulder pads and blowing smoke out of his glossy lips.
    Edgar Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Some experienced ghost smells, also known as phantosmia, such as a sudden waft of cigarette smoke out of nowhere.
    Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Wildfires continued raging across a vast swath of the Western U.S. Wednesday, straining states’ resources and sending plumes of smoke out for thousands of miles.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The hotel, fitted with a spa and a two swimming pools, was evacuated as fire crews ventilated the smoke out of the building, according to OCFS.
    Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Robin Andrews, of the nearby Carrington Lakes subdivision sealed her windows and doors with painters’ tape to keep the smoke out and added a Shark brand air purifier in her home.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Russians were bombing the woods again with flamethrowers, a tactic used to both obscure the view of reconnaissance drones and to smoke out the locations of Ukrainian positions and equipment.
    Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023

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