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Dead pine needles and soot carpet the forest floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

"When we see something very red in the universe, we often assume that it is surrounded by dust, like soot or ash," said Robert Simcoe, a study co-author from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

“That’s just the soot from the winter,” I tell her.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

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

His experiments covered all sorts of pigments, such as lamp-blacks, tars, carbonized vegetable matters, soots of oils and fats, and the various carbonized animal substances.

From Moon-Face by Jack London

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

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

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

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

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