Examples of 'smoke screen' in a sentence

Meaning of "smoke screen"

smoke screen - Figuratively refers to a tactic or distraction used to conceal true intentions or create confusion
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How to use "smoke screen" in a sentence

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smoke screen
Hiding behind a smoke screen of bourgeois clichés.
I have a feeling we are nearing your smoke screen.
He will run a smoke screen for you.
The smoke screen of a cleverly orchestrated communication.
The warden wants to throw up a smoke screen.
Is a smoke screen for what you really are.
Now they have laid a smoke screen.
The smoke screen was not for you.
That tea talk was just smoke screen.
A little smoke screen to buy us some time.
Some tanks can produce a smoke screen.
This is a smoke screen to cover the reality.
Achilles turned away under a smoke screen.
They are a smoke screen to conceal the truth.
So kidnapping people close to us was just a smoke screen.

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But your little smoke screen did not work.
Mike wants me to throw up a financial smoke screen.
That smoke screen of charm can be very dense.
Danielle put up a very effective smoke screen.
A smoke screen cooked up by the military.
All this feels similar to a smoke screen.
Threw up a jihadist smoke screen to cover their tracks.
Jesus obviously avoids the smoke screen.
It is a smoke screen to enable mass immigration.
The observatory was just a smoke screen.
A smoke screen to conceal my true identity.
All your arguments are just a smoke screen.
Lay smoke screen and attack.
The blaze created an effective smoke screen.
The smoke screen that he created.
The fertilizer bomb was also a smoke screen.
It is just a smoke screen happily created by our government.
Words are too often used as a smoke screen.
This is the smoke screen kiba talked about.
I had heard it through the smoke screen.
The smoke screen must be credible.
The bill as it stands is a smoke screen at best.
A smoke screen for their incompetence.
Were nothing more than a smoke screen.
Others are calling it a smoke screen set up by the church itself.
I think all that talk is just a smoke screen.
A smoke screen of some sort.
Effect of darkness and smoke screen entirely lost.
Sheffield quickly retreated under cover of a smoke screen.
Tirpitz put up a smoke screen which partially obscured her.
This diamond job is a smoke screen.
The smoke screen threw me.
Cos that whole stork thing is a smoke screen.
One big smoke screen.
You know the maintenance clause is a smoke screen.

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