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How to use cigar in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Cigar means a cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. Example: “Betty ran all out in the sprint race; yet, it was close, but no cigar.”

Examples of cigar by meaning

nounA cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

  • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

More sentences with cigar

  • Betty ran all out in the sprint race; yet, it was close, but no cigar.From the entry close, but no cigar
  • He imports Cuban cigars to the United States, which is illegal but profitable.From the entry imports
  • Don't get all shrinky on me. My distaste for cigars has nothing to do with childhood trauma.From the entry shrinky
  • Dude, quit thinking about it so much. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.From the entry sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
  • The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.From the entry gourmet
  • Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.From the entry tobacco
  • The woman sitting across from us was smoking a cigar.From the entry across from
  • He smoked cigars regardless of the consequences.From the entry regardless of
  • Those cigars I bought were abysmal — utterly unsmokable.From the entry unsmokable
  • A cigar is a prolate spheroid.From the entry prolate
  • Who would want to sit next to Larry, the guy who's too dumb not to blow his cigar smoke in your face?From the entry in someone's face
  • Once Buffett's capital base grew large enough, cigar butt investing was no longer feasible.2023 August 21, Andrea von Schalkwyk, “Why Buffett Crushed His Cigar Butt Habit on Munger's Advice”, in GuruFocus, archived from the…. From the entry cigar butt
  • Gah!” he spat once again and, as if disgusted by the words themselves, threw the cigar away.2018, James Moffett, An Element of Deceit: A Sherlock Holmes Case. From the entry mutton shunter
  • The Cuban cigar has become, in a sense, as Canadian as maple syrup.2014, Chris Turner, How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change, Biblioasis, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry Canadian as maple syrup
  • The loud rinky-dink music and the wafting blue cigar smoke made the scene a dime novel cover.2013, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson and the Gunslingers, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry rinky-dink
  • It is also possible that “a cigar ‘is’ just a “cigar” as Freud would say.2013, “Dream #39”, in Robert G. Kunzendorf, James W. Veatch, Envisioning the Dream through Art and Science (with 100 Digitally Imaged…. From the entry a cigar is just a cigar
  • I was waiting to be offered an exploding cigar and then shot with a bang flag gun!2011 September 20, Dennis D’Alesandro, “Belknapʼs bizarro world at Rebekah Templeton”, in The Art Blog, archived from the original on 20…. From the entry flag gun
  • To them, a cigar is a cigar, and life is pretty straightforward.2011 September, Jim Harold, “Part V: Eating My Own Dogfood”, in Jim Harold’s Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page…. From the entry a cigar is a cigar
  • But I accumulated a cigar box full of greenies, brownies and a few goldies.2009, Charles R. Twyman, Daddy, There's a Light in the Sky: An Illumination of Life Stories, →ISBN. From the entry goldie
  • Sometimes a cigar is a cigar and not a psychological or relational issue.2006, Pauline Boss, “Cautions About Resiliency”, in Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss, New York, N.Y.: W.…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  • It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars.2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, “Bonfire”, in Going Postal (A Novel of Discworld; 33), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN…. From the entry fug
  • Cigar was distracted at the break and let his five opponents get the jump.1999, Jay Hovdey, Cigar: America's Horse, page 63. From the entry break
  • You don’t need to process everything to death—sometimes a cigar is a cigar.1998, Paula Martinac, “Making It Last”, in The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage: Creating the Stories of Our Lives (A Seth Godin…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  • Furthermore to this beer, I would also like three of your finest, cheapest cigars.1996 5 May, David X. Cohen, "Much Apu About Nothing", episode 7-23 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59. From the entry adultivity
  • But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books.1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope, page 337. From the entry swore
  • Hamilton ashed his cigar, and studied the end of it for some moments without speaking.1978, C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously, published 1986, page 35. From the entry ash
  • "Never mind the cigar," said his dudeship; "I can't smoke the beastly things.1976, Comments on Etymology - Volumes 27-29, page 40. From the entry dudeship
  • First, the prestige of opulence, which attends the smoking of hand-made cigars imported from Cuba or Jamaica.1969, Saturday Night, volume 84, page 46. From the entry cigaresque
  • Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 204. From the entry skedaddle
  • What this country needs is no longer a good five-cent cigar.1960 January 12, “‘Computers’ Urged as School Subject”, in The Reporter Dispatch, 42nd year, number 267, White Plains, N.Y., →OCLC, page…. From the entry computer-programmer
  • The man beside him placed a cigar between Mallow’s teeth and lit it.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 166, ¶ 18. From the entry champ
  • O'Malley of the fat paunch, the pink wings, and the bent cigar.1943 October 31, Isabelle Mallet, “Godfather With Wings; BARNABY. By Crockett Johnson. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry fairy godfather
  • Martin bought the pack of Camels on Monday night in the most crowded cigar store on Broadway.1942, James Thurber, The Catbird Seat. From the entry camel
  • Grant be cited as an example of death due to cigars?1920, Topics - Volumes 1-2, page 106. From the entry lecturize
  • The other end is cut off square on a cutting-board, and your cigar is ready.1908 February 8, “A Visit to a Cigar Factory: Toronto Star Reporter Sees the Fragrant Weed Rolled Into Smokes. […]”, in The Toronto Daily…. From the entry cutting-board
  • Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC. From the entry bade
  • Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee.2012, Jessica Stirling, The Asking Price. From the entry kippered
  • ' John Lennon from the Beatles.' And Farley saw him then, on the bend of the counter smoking a cigar.2011, Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry Lennon
  • There you could buy snow cones, the daily Cincinnati Enquirer, Hudepohl beer, five-cent Ibold cigars, and Reds baseball trading cards.2010, Ben Kamin, Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University…. From the entry pony keg

Meaning of cigar

  1. noun A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
  2. noun The penis.

Full definition of cigar

Questions about cigar in a sentence

How do you use cigar in a sentence?
Cigar is used as a noun. For example: “Betty ran all out in the sprint race; yet, it was close, but no cigar.”
What is a short sentence with cigar?
“A cigar is a prolate spheroid.”
What does cigar mean?
Cigar means a cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

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