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Rescuers and workers, some wearing hard hats but most in everyday attire, helped carry bodies out of the concrete tunnel, some covered in black soot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

I stuck to slapping the hoods and windows of so many cars that my hand turned black with soot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

A recent study by researchers at University College London found that the space sector will be adding 870 tons of soot to the atmosphere every year by 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

"The fire whirls burned the oil about 40 percent faster, cut soot emissions by 40 percent, and achieved up to 95 percent fuel consumption efficiency compared to in-situ fire tests," Oran said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Tasting the dirt in my mouth, I imagined it to be the soot of the mines.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You would hardly think that all those substances which fly about London in the form of soots and blacks are the very beauty and life of the flame.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

He looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

Although I've hate or nine new soots of close, and Mr. Cullin fits me heligant, yet I fansy they hall reckonise me.

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

Mephistopheles, seeking severest punishment for the damned, displayed tenderness in not adopting the super-heated and sooted pits where stokers in storms at sea are forced to labor and suffer.

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

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