sooty
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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
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
Her cheeks were sooty, but otherwise she just looked asleep.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
However, reality wears a graver face and a sootier one.
From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dorgan, Dick
A Santa Claus that had any bowels of compassion would rush down the narrowest and sootiest chimney in the world to give me my simple wishes.
From Marm Lisa by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
She was small, not more than fifteen hundred or two thousand tons, and the dingiest, sootiest of all tramp freighters.
From Harrigan by Brand, Max
He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he?
From Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines by Monroe, Kirk
