sooty

By the time pink and orange streaks began to glow over the horizon, all we had were a couple of boxes of wet, sooty items.

They may be relocating to avoid sooty skies.

The mostly white moths stood out in the sooty environment and became easy prey for predators.

The other side of the detective’s profile has him strolling between the starched propriety of upper-class society and the sooty underbelly, doing rich men’s dirty work.

Those pollutants include particulate matter 2.5, or sooty material that is released from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires.