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

Footage of rolling flames is as soothing as the real thing, and without the choking emissions and sooty clean-up.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Those pollutants include particulate matter 2.5, or sooty material that is released from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

City snowplows thunder through the streets as the white snow gets piled up and sooty, until nothing is pristine.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama