smoky

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Recent Examples of smoky However, the creamy formula is easily blendable for a more smoky look. Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2025 The main concern for the North Texas region is fires, because if fires do spark, smoky wind can create long term health issues. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025 Today the old town seems to have retreated into a kind of sleepy Norman Rockwell innocence: the distant drone of a lawn mower, the call of kids playing catch, the smoky aromas of a barbecue. Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025 Her makeup included bold brows, a smoky eye and a soft, clean visage. Julia Teti, WWD, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smoky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoky
Adjective
  • Fans clamor over the major shift in Carti’s vocal cadence to something deeper and more hoarse than his past work.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Typically lasting about a week, these include chronic cough, sneezing fits, runny nose, sinus pressure, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and hoarse (scratchy, raspy) voice.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Black carbon is a dark, sooty byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
    Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2019
  • By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
    Mike McCahill, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Voicing the bag is an older woman with a husky Tuscan timbre, which carries the whole way through its lifecycle onscreen.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • My husky boy feet cemented into the concrete veranda.
    Diane Seuss, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Adjective
  • Simultaneously punched out, yet refusing to stay down for the count, a gruff Smith does his actorly best to understand, then diss, his public’s view of the slap heard round the world.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In a gruff voice, Fino speculated about what besides the mushroom might have caused the disease.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Combat is fun enough – melee combat is rough but serviceable, and the gunplay is decent – and the world is filled with things to do, places to go, and people to meet (and ultimately kill).
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Chicago Bulls have been stepping up lately after a rough start following the Zach LaVine trade.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Smoky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoky. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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