1.   An acrid smoke wisped skyward from blackened houses, casting a thick haze over the new day.

2.   And beyond them are blue hills over which hang a thick white haze and the leavings of a brush fire spewing black smoke into a blue sky.

3.   A sticky amber haze as thick as meringue had settled over the Hudson River by noon.

4.   A supportive gantlet of students formed a welcoming line for the arriving stars, who made their way through a thick haze generated by a smoke machine.

5.   Its streets are forever choked with cars and motorcycles and a thick bluish haze hangs in the air.

6.   More like a private drawing room, a thick haze floats above heads as smokers voluptuously exhale cigarette smoke.

7.   Recently, a thick haze with origins on another continent has hung over South Texas.

8.   Residents are experiencing an array of problems, from respiratory ailments and heat exhaustion to thick smoky haze, highway closings and town evacuations.

9.   The airport was covered in a thick haze, the residue of an unexplained wave of pollution affecting the city in recent days.

10.   The first round was played in a thick haze, courtesy of brisk southerly winds that blew in ash from raging brush fires in Mexico.