soot
IPA: sˈʊt
noun
- Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
verb
- (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.
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Examples of "soot" in Sentences
- Hutchinson snuffed the smoky candle and reflectively rubbed the soot from the wick between thumb and forefinger.
- They were just covered in soot, their hair was all over the place, you just basically saw the whites of their eyes.
- A third man on the tracks, covered in soot and dirt and with all but his boxer shorts blown off by the blast, had been staring into space, he said.
- He said that, as shocked passengers emerged from the tunnel covered in soot, one of them "quite angrily" said there had been fatalities on the train.
- Traditionally Samichlaus would come along with his (politically incorrect) friend Schmutzli ( 'schmutz' meaning dirt - usually this was a person covered in soot).
- You know, I was usually covered in soot when I was a kid, and everything was in black and white, the factory chimneys and smoke and all that, and when I looked on the screen it was the same thing.
- While rain will remove rocket exhaust soot from the lower atmosphere, carbon particles will remain in the stratosphere, according to a paper to be published in the scientific journal Geophysics Research Letters.
- The villagers think the experiment has failed but Scundoo is very clever: He asks everybody raise to raise their hands above their heads and every hand is blackened with soot from the iron pot — every hand except Sime's.
- The three back-to-back episodes of the original seven-part Daleks story, in soot-and-chalk black and white, with William Hartnell sleepwalking through the script, correcting his own fluffed lines as he goes, was slow stuff.
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