Like bars in old films

Usage examples of smoky.

Sivaraksa made a quick, cursive annotation in the notebook he had opened on his desk, then slid it beneath the smoky gray cube of a paperweight.

Her eyes were smoky marbles in a bust of discolored lapis lazuli, and I regarded her at that moment as an angel of transcendent apehood, a woman well ahead of her time.

He rubbed the engraved opal that was the bezel of the ring and it began to glow like a brightening ember, smoky crimson shot with livid green at first, then kindling to a vivid scarlet.

I sold The Good Times out on Campus Boul and was eventually recruited to distribute a rival publication called After Dark, basically a skin mag, whose cover each week featured a blurry color separation of an unclothed full-busted beauty whose smoky look smoldered above the fold in the vending machines where I placed the papers.

The air smelt smoky from the braaivleis fires which had been lit on the parade ground immediately outside the hall.

Elphinstone suddenly cried out at a number of tongues of smoky red flame leaping up above the houses in front of them against the hot, blue sky.

Dark and smoky, it had loads of atmosphere, played good, old fashioned, dancey rock and roll, had a pool table or two, and no one batted an eye when he and Zach held hands a little.

From outside, a smoky haze obscured details, but Dex could see the ominous shapes form as they strode closer.

In the evenings, when mist enveloped the huge construction project, the builders would withdraw into their barracks, close the windows and light smoky fires of damp twigs outside the doors to drive away the swarms of mosquitoes and gnats which filled the air with a sinister, high-pitched buzzing.

Gustav Fiers, dapper in an exquisitely tailored white suit sharing drinks with a group of similarly-clad men at a table in a smoky nightclub.

By then Greg Grom had finished his public pie-eating and was delivering a brief speech on the indomitable spirit on the Smoky Mountain folk.

With this lisping, coaxing, companionable sea the serene and sparkling sky, the glow beyond the worlds, the listening isles--demure and dim--the air moist, pacific and fragrant--what concern of mine if the smoky messenger from the stuffy town never comes?

When I leaned over the edge of the creek to see if I had damaged the culvert, peering through the smoky mist, a great lunker of a cutthroat came floating out, belly up.

The three were sitting in the smoky shadows of the Mos Eisley Cantina, sipping green Pica Thundercloud and watching the bounty hunters drift in from around the galaxy: Weequays, Aqualish, Arcona, Defels, Kauronians, Fneebs, Quill-heads, Bomodons, Alpheridians - and the inevitable Ganks.

Their smoky red light sent long shadows weaving across the flaking frescoes of the naos and put red sparks in the glossy black circle of the shrine.