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Soda cans covered in soot still sit on the shelves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

He was told that with a wildfire, the only contaminants are soot, ash and char.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Dead pine needles and soot carpet the forest floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Other patients streamed outside, their faces covered in soot, with one man holding a newborn in his arms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Silver nitrate burned hot and fast, and even now her eyes itched furiously, and she could taste a chemical soot on her tongue.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet though starved by the exhausted soil, and clogged by soots from innumerable chimneys, it remained majestic, finely decorative as some tree of metal, of age-old bronze roughened by a greenness of deep-eating rust.

From The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

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

He won’t go into one o’ your soots, Mr Dutch, I know.”

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn

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

He had even blanketed and skewered and sooted and greased himself, into the London papers. 

From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Charles Dickens

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

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

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