sooty
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Gas burns more cleanly than diesel, and it offered a means of complying with new regulations due to come into force on sooty pollutants, known as NOx and SOx.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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
Ornamental bay windows protrude from the sooty brick exterior that I estimate to be seventeenth century.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
However, reality wears a graver face and a sootier one.
From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan
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
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
