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chain-smoked

vb. (en-pastchain-smoke)

Usage examples of "chain-smoked".

He whispered, remember, that this somebody was hoarse as a grater and nevertheless chain-smoked all day long.

Stephanie smelled like freshly baked bread, sagebrush, and black tobacco: she chain-smoked French cigarettes called Gauloises, always blowing the smoke out with dispassionate and unselfconscious slowness, like a tired Depression farm woman (photographed by Dorothea Lange), or an exhausted, withdrawn whore.

He chain-smoked nervously as he sat over coffee and watched the jets leaving for Europe.

He was still rake-thin and chain-smoked nervously, a habit that belied his cold nerve when in action.