sooty
IPA: sˈuti
verb
- To blacken or make dirty with soot.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or producing soot.
- Soiled with soot
- Of the color of soot.
- (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
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Examples of "sooty" in Sentences
- The chimney sweep emerged from the fireplace with hands covered in sooty residue
- After a long day of camping, our faces were smudged with sooty ashes from the fire
- The old abandoned house had sooty cobwebs draped in the corners of the room
- The exhaust pipe on the car emitted a thick cloud of sooty smoke
- The firefighter returned from battling the blaze, his uniform charred and sooty from the flames
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