smokescreen in English

noun
1
a cloud of smoke created to conceal military operations.

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1. His peace talks are merely a smokescreen.

2. Unfortunately the smokescreen is not likely to help.

3. Rangers progress through a smokescreen created to cover their movement.

4. Smokescreen for the development of ultra secret 75 mm gun?

5. The rumors were a smokescreen for their own illegal activities.

6. He was just firing a smokescreen of emotive words and phrases.

7. It's just a smokescreen for covering up its expansion of the war.

8. Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.

9. The export business was just a smokescreen for his activities as a spy.

10. He was accused of putting up a smokescreen to hide poor standards in schools.

11. Unconsciously they create a smokescreen of confusion as a defence against the fear of being taken over.

12. Britain's nuclear power programme began with a lie: it was a smokescreen for the nuclear weapons programme.

13. The administration's emphasis on the drop in inflation is just a smokescreen to divert attention from rising unemployment.

14. Instead of doing something about the problem, the council is hiding behind a smokescreen of bureaucracy.

15. SMOKESCREEN is a big, strong warrior that moves with slow deliberation and a lot of power.

16. The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern.

17. Plastic-bonded pyrotechnical mixture for producing alkali metal chloride or earth alkali metal chloride aerosols as smokescreen

18. It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea.

19. Early on the 18th, the American force sighted and attacked three Japanese destroyers forcing them to retire behind a smokescreen.

20. In addition, a good Assumptive question also heads off any smokescreen objection a prospect might try to hide behind.

21. In an attempt to mitigate the predicament, König turned to port and laid a smokescreen between the German and British lines.

22. Brimstone is a powerful commander that utilizes incendiary grenades, smokescreen airstrikes, and rapid-fire-inducing stim beacons to damage enemies and buff teammates

23. This paper devoted to the methods for evaluating the jamming effectiveness of smokescreen jamming devices on electro-optical imaging systems and electro-optical guided weapons.

24. Of "Norwegian Wood" Lennon commented: "I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair ... but in such a smokescreen way that you couldn't tell."

25. It is no wonder that the United States has tried and is trying to create a smokescreen in this meeting and elsewhere to deflect attention from its abysmal record on nuclear disarmament.