Examples of 'smokescreen' in a sentence

Meaning of "smokescreen"

Smokescreen (noun) - Something that obscures or distracts from the truth
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  • Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
  • Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

How to use "smokescreen" in a sentence

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Smokescreen still has a great deal to learn.
Wonder what smokescreen they will try.
Smokescreen was the only one who went back.
All that community stuff is a big smokescreen.
Or through the smokescreen of the crowded restaurants.
I think all that talk is just a smokescreen.
Smokescreen how to best function on this planet.
What he did is he used the urban legend as a smokescreen.
It was just a smokescreen to throw us off his trail.
Porters delivered supplies under a nightly smokescreen.
Create a smokescreen at the feet of the adventurers.
You did not have to do the whole smokescreen.
They know a smokescreen when they see one.
But the economy may just be a smokescreen.
Perhaps your smokescreen theory is wrong.

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I think the whole political thing is a smokescreen.
Are just a smokescreen for something far more insidious.
But these kinds of consideration may be a smokescreen.
He has a smokescreen on the case submitted.
Its consistency lets it operate behind a smokescreen.
Now they have put up a smokescreen because of a politician.
The territorial issue has always been a smokescreen.
We can use smokescreen to get lost in the jungle.
The new policies are only a smokescreen.
Put up a smokescreen in case it was a cop who did it.
The kid was the perfect smokescreen.
A little smokescreen to buy us some time.
I did not see through the smokescreen.
These attacks are a smokescreen for something else.
A smokescreen thrown up before our eyes.
Soccer would become a smokescreen to cover up the genocide.
Looks like that was just a smokescreen.
It will work as a smokescreen for just a short while.
So we have to create a little bit of a smokescreen.
Complexity is often a smokescreen that hides a conflict of interest.
His delegation was not disposed to contribute to such a smokescreen.
A smokescreen to conceal my true identity.
The death threats were just a smokescreen.
This debate is a smokescreen for monopolies and for protectionism.
He knew his role was to create a smokescreen.
Lay smokescreen and attack.
I have a feeling we are nearing your smokescreen.
Smokescreen went for the relic.
He now says his murder was a smokescreen.
Smokescreen bridged out unaccompanied.
The murder was just a smokescreen.
Smokescreen just got here.
Maybe the gunmen and the hostages were a smokescreen.
Smokescreen even implements its own ActionScript bytecode interpreter.
One wonders if this is not a smokescreen.

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