soot

Traditional ink was generally made from soot, water, and a binder such as gum Arabic.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Dead pine needles and soot carpet the forest floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Outside the ward, staff used water to clean the floor, while others rubbed soot and grime off the walls.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

"When we see something very red in the universe, we often assume that it is surrounded by dust, like soot or ash," said Robert Simcoe, a study co-author from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

"If my wish would come true,” Mother hastened to change the subject, "you’d all be sitting in bathtubs right this minute, washing soot out of your hair.”

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

He won’t go into one o’ your soots, Mr Dutch, I know.”

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn

Although I've hate or nine new soots of close, and Mr. Cullin fits me heligant, yet I fansy they hall reckonise me.

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

Look at the soots that fly off from the flame: see what an imperfect combustion it is, because it cannot get enough air.

From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes

His design touch is about to turn the sooted, shut-down BlackHorn into Shelby Jean’s, which will soon be giving off warm and comfy vibes as a restaurant and pub.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2015

Squinting in the glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some thought it was the edge of a huge and newly invented Nazi smoke screen blown in from the front, for London and the southeast British coast were also sooted.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the time we arrived there the snow had become drab and sooted, wet and heavy.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The schooner was freed of the "puffing abomination," the smoke of which sooted the Seamew's clean sails.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

The offensive production from Morant came on 12 of 19 sooting from the field and marked the ninth time in the past 10 games the All-Star guard reached the 30-point mark.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

After that all had gone well—except for a plug sooting on number three cylinder and a halt for petrol about fifty miles outside London.

From Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

The night-watchman, Alfred Swanson, took care of this curious plant, which consisted of a battery of petroleum lamps that were forced to burn to the sooting point.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer