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chain-smoker

NOUN
  1. a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another

How To Use chain-smoker In A Sentence

  • - Despite a background in public health work, Hopkins was a lifelong chain-smoker and coffee drinker – a classic A-type personality who lived in his office and usually looked “as though he had spent the previous night sleeping in a hayloft.” Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins
  • The chain-smoker (left), 59, may have to use nicotine patches or gum to get him through games. The Sun
  • Moreover, Bobby was an alcoholic and chain-smoker, so his output fell off rapidly after he hit 30. Matthew Yglesias » Change the Story
  • The desire of a chain-smoker to give up smoking, on the other hand, would be a virtuous desire since it would break the cyclic pattern of a compulsive negative habit and enhance health and well-being.
  • She whispers something like Are you close baby? in a hoarse chain-smoker whisper. Monkeytown excerpt 3
  • He was a chain-smoker, and was smelly and unhygienic, with filthy fingernails. Times, Sunday Times
  • THINGS I DIDN'T SEE COMING: With only one episode to go, Mad Men delivers one of its greatest surprises to date, as notorious chain-smoker Don Draper publishes a one-page "Why I'm Quitting Tobacco" manifesto in The New York Times to (as Peggy quotes him) "change the conversation" about the firm's persona non grata status since the Lucky Strike defection. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • He was also a lifelong chain-smoker. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the chain-smoker now rakes in thousands of pounds a year in benefits here while living rent-free. The Sun
  • I found even my good days weighing around my shoulders, with their own distinct smell wafting around my head like the scent that follows chain-smokers.
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