Explore Smokescreen through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like screen or concealment. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Smokescreen meaning
- Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
- Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
Synonyms of Smokescreen
Using Smokescreen
- The main meaning on this page is: Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle. | Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
- Useful related words include: smoke screen, screen, concealment, concealing.
- In the example corpus, smokescreen often appears in combinations such as: smokescreen to, as smokescreen, the smokescreen.
Context around Smokescreen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smokescreen
- In this selection, "smokescreen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, used, convenient, season and provided stand out and add context to how "smokescreen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a smokescreen and be a smokescreen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smokescreen" sits close to words such as abergavenny, accrual and acetylene, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smokescreen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But that could be a smokescreen. (6 words)
The hope is also that the inquiry will not just be a smokescreen. (13 words)
Then again, in smokescreen season, who knows how heartily this can even be trusted? (14 words)
In a sweeping critique, he lambasted the BJP for its alleged failure to meet poll promises, accused it of using religion as a smokescreen, and expressed alarm at the rise of sectarian violence in states such as Manipur and Haryana. (40 words)
There is already a war going on, but the smokescreen provided by the coronavirus spread and BLM means that no one seems to want more on their plate and there is great reluctance to call it for what it is. (40 words)
In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, reached an with Amazon to help search for and restrict the sale of smokescreen and tinted license plate covers to customers with a New York state address. (37 words)
Then again, in smokescreen season, who knows how heartily this can even be trusted? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Granted that the letter is a smokescreen to endorse Peter Obi doesn’t really conclude him being the dummy decoy.
In a sweeping critique, he lambasted the BJP for its alleged failure to meet poll promises, accused it of using religion as a smokescreen, and expressed alarm at the rise of sectarian violence in states such as Manipur and Haryana.
Then again, in smokescreen season, who knows how heartily this can even be trusted?
The pledge is a “smokescreen to hide the reality that we need to phase out oil, gas and coal”, said a letter signed by more than 300 civil society groups.
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general has labelled the Democratic Alliance’s () intention to have its deployment policy declared as a “smokescreen”.
Deku has used Smokescreen in his encounters against Muscular, Lady Nagant, and Shigaraki Tomura.
For many third states, the narrative of the two-state solution has been a convenient smokescreen that has effectively enabled the continued colonization of Palestinian land.
In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, reached an with Amazon to help search for and restrict the sale of smokescreen and tinted license plate covers to customers with a New York state address.
The hope is also that the inquiry will not just be a smokescreen.
Attorneys representing families who die in custody believe the attorney’s presence on the board merely serves as a smokescreen.
In other words, the Fed's recent reduction in repos (money added into the system) is just a smokescreen because the Fed is more than offsetting it on the other end of it books.
Poverty was just a smokescreen as they capitalised on the gullibility of the people and the bad governance in the land.
The C19 “pandemic” is clearly a smokescreen to hide the destruction of our economy and the socialist takeover of the voting process.
The current crisis may also be used as a smokescreen to have sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe lifted while the government has not shown any appetite to deal with the issues that attracted the sanctions at the beginning.
There is already a war going on, but the smokescreen provided by the coronavirus spread and BLM means that no one seems to want more on their plate and there is great reluctance to call it for what it is.
And don’t be fooled by the smokescreen of Democrats complaining about the tax incentives that were offered to Amazon.
But that could be a smokescreen.
Intelligence is the ability to see through the smokescreen and bovine excrement, pin point the problem and come up with a solution.
The armed forces, which are loyal to Maduro, blockaded a bridge crossing to prevent the entry of aid, which Maduro claimed was a smokescreen to cover a US-led invasion.
They helped and still help, in their own way, to provide the smokescreen that is needed for Tuku to gracefully leave this worldly stage for the celestial realm.
Common combinations with smokescreen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smokescreen to 7×
- as smokescreen 6×
- the smokescreen 5×
- smokescreen and 3×
- smokescreen that 3×
- is smokescreen 2×
- be smokescreen 2×
- just smokescreen 2×
- smokescreen of 2×
- was smokescreen 2×