A cigarette, half an ash, dangled from the side of her mouth, and the smoke from it spiraled upward.

Black smoke issued from a cast-iron stove and spiraled behind it in long, lazy loops.

Black smoke spiraled upward to meet the unyielding rock of the cave roof, and then filled the chamber with an acrid, choking fog.

Flames still flickered and smoke spiraled into the sky.

As smoke spiraled upward toward the stars, elven arrows kept at bay all those who tried to quench the gathering flames.

He was gazing down the valley, and smoke spiraled upward from his pipe.

More smoke spiraled from the left, while a sputtering sound came from the right.

The smoke from the grill spiraled into the late afternoon air, hot and still as a held breath.

Remember, too, how on summer Sunday afternoons the smoke from millions of backyard barbecues spiraled into the American sky?

He did not look toward the smoke still spiraling upward from the cellarer's yard.