sooty
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He said that in New Zealand sooty shearwater, also known as muttonbirds, were traditionally hunted on Rakiura, which is also known as Stewart Island.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Smog” is a turn-of-the-century portmanteau word mashing together “smoke” and “fog” to describe the sooty, sulfurous air of the London of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Malick Diop grew up in Senegal in a thatched-roof hut with a dirt floor, sooty walls and roaming goats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, typing to you from underneath a sooty, icy snow boulder that has covered the entirety of D.C. for a week.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026
Januka tilts her head to look at the man’s sooty wrist and says, “Oh!”
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
However, reality wears a graver face and a sootier one.
From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan
He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he?
From Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines by Kirk Monroe
She was small, not more than fifteen hundred or two thousand tons, and the dingiest, sootiest of all tramp freighters.
From Harrigan by Max Brand
A Santa Claus that had any bowels of compassion would rush down the narrowest and sootiest chimney in the world to give me my simple wishes.
From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
