The cigarette had been burning for five minutes just as the plane got off the ground.

Even with the special safety paper, a forgotten cigarette may burn for several minutes before going out on its own.

The cigarette still burned in front of my face as they hovered over me.

Note: Common dry cigarettes burn about 1 inch every 7 or 8 minutes in still air.

My cigarette was burning away and I reached for the ashtray.

He'd been taken drunk one night in Vietnam, and a cigarette had burned out there.

His cigarette had burned down, and he dropped it over the railing.

She was still for quite a while, the cigarette burning unregarded in her hand.

Resting on the edge of the table, mostly ash now, her cigarette burned away.

The cigarette she saw between her fingers had burned the mere length of half an inch.