sootiness
IPA: sˈʊtinʌs
noun
- The state or property of being sooty
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Examples of "sootiness" in Sentences
- Sootiness is thought to be a form of countershading.
- He pointed to a sootiness not far below the north pole, as it hove in sight.
- He huffed off, like an ancient steam locomotive in weight and noise and sootiness.
- Check out Trevor Little's handsome photo of the power-washing of Manhattan's 188 Suffolk Street, revealing the deep sootiness of New York's old buildings.
- He was not so dramatic a painter as Dosso, and in addition he had certain mannerisms or earmarks, such as sootiness in his flesh tints and brightness in his yellows and greens, with dulness in his reds.
- He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, wine-black, his complexion, like that of others of my darkest men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness, and to my eye very handsome.
- He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, _wine-black_; his complexion, like that of others of my darkest men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness, and to my eye very handsome.
- But at once the mental picture of herself, making inaudible carping strictures on her companion's sootiness and, all unconscious, lifting to observe it a critical countenance as swart as his own -- the incongruity smote her deliciously, irresistibly!
- His Mary -- and this it was that would make a test so violent -- his Mary was his Mary, and well he knew, and loved, the little heart so delicately white as instantly to discover the finest specks of sootiness -- if specks there were -- in any breeze that might cross its surface.