soot
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The fire sent plumes of black smoke over Boyle Heights and other parts of Los Angeles, leaving the air heavy with soot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Compounding the poor air quality, this year’s celebration comes on the heels of a late June warehouse fire in Boyle Heights that released extraordinary amounts of soot and smoke across L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Another worry is soot, created when fuel burns and when plastic satellite parts burn up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
However, it also produces thick clouds of black smoke, releases soot into the atmosphere, and leaves behind a layer of unburned residue floating on the ocean's surface.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
The fine black soot raced along the street before them.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
And me wi' two soots as refuses to be wore out not to mention this here.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
Look at the soots that fly off from the flame: see what an imperfect combustion it is, because it cannot get enough air.
From The Chemical History of a Candle by Crookes, William, Sir
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 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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 London, Jack
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 used to say that sooted him to perfection.
From Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Bensell, Edmund Birckhead
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 Dyer, Frank Lewis
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 Pertwee, Roland
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