Sooty

//ˈsʊti//

"Sooty" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Her face was sooty.

I have a pet train I sometimes take to work. It makes the office all sooty though.

The dragon breathed fire and exhaled its sooty ashen remains.

His face was sooty.

The walls were painted a sooty color.

The women in this village know the health consequences of the sooty flames only too well.

Since the introduction of the process of gas-singeing in finishing textiles, many improvements have been made in the construction of the machines for this purpose as well as in that of the burners, for the object of the latter must be to effect the singeing not only evenly and thoroughly, but at the same time with a complete combustion of the gas and avoidance of sooty deposits upon the cloth.

Fire of sooty coal.

The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.

The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.

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While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]

And, though I've laughed at your expense, / O sister of the sooty hue, / No man who has a heart and sense / Would do one deed to injure you.

Sootied with noisome smoke.

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