soot
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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," Simcoe explains.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
They’re the stench of smoke and soot and chlorine, and of burning, rotting, rat-besieged food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The warehouse fire exposed residents to smoke and soot that was worse than the 2025 Los Angeles County fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Now soot completely blocked his view of the room he’d just dropped into, thrown into the air by the force of their landings.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their warnin' sound our bizness soots, But bust the thought o' Silent Boots!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
The foreheads of both mother and child are marked with the soots from the burning camphor.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
And me wi' two soots as refuses to be wore out not to mention this here.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
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 Thomas Nast
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
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
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
By the time we arrived there the snow had become drab and sooted, wet and heavy.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
They had a lot of gals a dancin' some kind of a dance; I don't know what they called it, but it sooted me fust rate.
From Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart
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
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