sooty

Example Sentences

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Malick Diop grew up in Senegal in a thatched-roof hut with a dirt floor, sooty walls and roaming goats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, typing to you from underneath a sooty, icy snow boulder that has covered the entirety of D.C. for a week.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

The other side of the detective’s profile has him strolling between the starched propriety of upper-class society and the sooty underbelly, doing rich men’s dirty work.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

He woke up Thursday morning with a bloody nose and a sooty black crust in the corners of his eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

She loved the sooty sparrows and thought that the very grass that grew in the lots was beautiful.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith