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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chain-smoke.

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Examples

  • He chain-smoked cigarettes, sometimes with an aspirator to ease chronic asthma.

    Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies 2011

  • The handsome and manicured Tito, dressed in a gray tunic and breeches with black riding boots that clinked with spurs, chain-smoked cigarettes perched in what Huot thought was a ridiculous-looking miniature pipe adorned with silver filigree.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • She sat on the bench next to me and chain-smoked, ashes falling onto the keys and my small fingers.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • The handsome and manicured Tito, dressed in a gray tunic and breeches with black riding boots that clinked with spurs, chain-smoked cigarettes perched in what Huot thought was a ridiculous-looking miniature pipe adorned with silver filigree.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • She sat on the bench next to me and chain-smoked, ashes falling onto the keys and my small fingers.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • He chain-smoked cigarettes, sometimes with an aspirator to ease chronic asthma.

    Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies 2011

  • Brand later described the meeting as surreal: Eichmann chain-smoked, paced around the room, and bragged about having rounded up all the Jews in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria.46 Finally getting to the point, Eichmann said that the Reich needed trucks for its war effort and was willing to trade one million Jews for ten thousand winterized trucks.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • She was about three feet tall, Vietnamese, and chain-smoked kreteks, holding them between her two middle fingers like a Gestapo offcier.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • Brand later described the meeting as surreal: Eichmann chain-smoked, paced around the room, and bragged about having rounded up all the Jews in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria.46 Finally getting to the point, Eichmann said that the Reich needed trucks for its war effort and was willing to trade one million Jews for ten thousand winterized trucks.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

  • Brand later described the meeting as surreal: Eichmann chain-smoked, paced around the room, and bragged about having rounded up all the Jews in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria.46 Finally getting to the point, Eichmann said that the Reich needed trucks for its war effort and was willing to trade one million Jews for ten thousand winterized trucks.

    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

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