Tendrils of smoke

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Here and there, bluish tendrils of smoke curled upward from the burning bush.

Move your head and you can see faint tendrils of smoke floating through it.

Twice a week, real tendrils of smoke float across the horizon announcing the arrival of the Ilala, which interrupts the lazy rhythm of the island.

The patent court-like shoes, which are handmade at Louboutin's Paris atelier, have mesh panels, sculpted heels that looks like tendrils of smoke and of course, the French designer's iconic red sole.

In them, her arms are certainly remarkable in their rippling fluency; I can see again in my mind's eye the way she ended one number with them suggesting the upwardly spiraling tendrils of smoke in the open air.

But in the savannas below, the tendrils of smoke hanging over the landscape attest to a custom that has set off a fierce debate among scientists in Venezuela and beyond: the Pemón Indian tradition of repeatedly burning grassland and forest to hunt for animals and grow food.

You knew he was in residence, even if you hadn't seen him, by the sound of his exuberant laugh and sometimes by the tendrils of dope smoke seeping from beneath his closed door.

As long as the thing still sent up that fragile tendril of smoke, we could continue to stand there in the warm light of the sun.

The flame guttered, sending up tendrils of black smoke.

Tendrils of gray smoke curl up into the evening murk from the chimneys of brick houses that march up hillsides in tidy rows.

Through fence-like rows of pine trees, we saw tendrils of wood smoke rising from the Swiss-style gingerbread houses that cling to the green mountainsides.