The cowboy shook his head, lit a cigarette (unfiltered), and drove his pickup home.

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After dinner my grandmother lit a cigarette and my grandfather poured three glasses of homemade black currant vodka.

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She spoke softly to her daughter, and I stepped aside and lit a cigarette to give them some privacy.

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At a table covered with egg cartons, a frizzy-haired blonde in fingerless gloves rubbed her hands together and lit a cigarette.

NEWYORKER: The Repatriates

She sat down on the toilet, put her coffee and the book on top of the laundry hamper, and lit a cigarette.

NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

Sometimes Diana came out on the back porch and lit a cigarette, standing there holding her elbow, the hand with the cigarette pointing at the sky.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

He lit a cigarette, as he always did, too.

NEWYORKER: Bravado

When he had finished, the publisher lit a cigarette and paced up and down the office for a long time in silence, walking from one wall to the other, a distance of barely three yards.

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Jahangir lit a cigarette, and continued.

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Zhu lit a cigarette.

NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

An investigation held into the disaster found the fire had probably been caused by a lit cigarette dropped under the all-wooden stand, igniting litter underneath the steps.

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Snapcase lit a hand-rolled cigarette with a match from a bar he favored.

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