charcoal

Example Sentences

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The fridge lies empty, the electric stove is not working, and the only available cooking method is a small charcoal grill her husband built.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

To better understand past fire activity, researchers examined charcoal preserved in peat deposits from Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

His angular head topped with a green felt crown; his toothy mouth a sinister, grimacing gash; his eyes blackened with what looks like charcoal.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Media manipulation has become, in contemporary art, almost as common as charcoal drawing was a century-and-a-half ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

It sent a plume of dark smoke up into the sky, charcoal black into the robin’s-egg blue of the once most perfect day.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin