charcoal
Example Sentences
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To better understand past fire activity, researchers examined charcoal preserved in peat deposits from Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
His angular head topped with a green felt crown; his toothy mouth a sinister, grimacing gash; his eyes blackened with what looks like charcoal.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
Media manipulation has become, in contemporary art, almost as common as charcoal drawing was a century-and-a-half ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
"I noticed that the brick was a very pink-cast brick, and it had a little bit of a charcoal overlay on it. It was a modular eight-inch brick and it was square-edged," he says.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Pet scoffed deep in its throat and flipped through a pile of charcoal sketches.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
