soot

I stuck to slapping the hoods and windows of so many cars that my hand turned black with soot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Emitted near the ground, soot is a short-lived warming agent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

"The fire whirls burned the oil about 40 percent faster, cut soot emissions by 40 percent, and achieved up to 95 percent fuel consumption efficiency compared to in-situ fire tests," Oran said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Network Rail has called the Victorian tunnel one of the most hostile environments on the UK rail network, where moisture, dripping saltwater and diesel soot accelerate wear on equipment.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

By the time the sun started setting over the Manhattan skyline in the distance, Magdalys and Two Step were covered in soot, but they’d gotten the whole process down to a smooth, step-by-step rhythm.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Crookes, William, Sir

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace

John bought each uv the male sons uv Ham too soots uv close per annum, and each uv the female sons uv Ham one soot.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Nast, Thomas

You would hardly think that all those substances which fly about London in the form of soots and blacks are the very beauty and life of the flame.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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

But overhead there was the mark of human occupancy, since the earth-arch was sooted and blackened with the reek of many fires.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

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 Pertwee, Roland

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 Dyer, Frank Lewis