Red herring

Usage examples of smokescreen.

Shoemaker, hasn't it occurred to you that a political enemy may be using the Carding case as a smokescreen?

For years, especially recently, in modern times, he had relied on humans like Bob to provide a smokescreen for him, concealing him from suspicious eyes and coping with the intricacies of the modern world for him.

Bights has been a smokescreen to obscure everything from de facto segregation to outmoded abortion statutes.

RFK: The concept of States Bights has been a smokescreen to obscure everything from de facto segregation to outmoded abortion statutes.

Depending on the mood of the American sergeant commanding the smoke-generating vehicle, the smokescreen was used to block the Germans' view or actually blow right across the German reconnaissance vehicle.

It is going on behind the smokescreen of a world war, in a rogue nation cut off from civilized society.

Stretching away from the lurid glow immediately below the flyer, two streaks of whiteness flickered eerily where recorded Taloid images were being projected onto internally illuminated smokescreens from lanterns concealed several hours earlier on the rock-strewn slopes overlooking the obvious route through the valley.