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sooty example sentences
sooty
1. Castile works very well against many types of funguses such as black sooty mold as well as for controlling ants outside
2. Sooty dust motes took to the air as
3. The forge was very sooty
4. The daylight had been piercingly bright then, despite the sooty clouds of war that had already begun to roll into the countryside
5. Two sooty, bare-chested men gaped at her
6. Wee Cam chewed on a bit of straw and looked at them with squinty eyes out of a sooty face
7. Her surface beauty quickly waned, seemed sullied by a sooty cloud that came upon Her like a plague
8. There was a sooty cleft in the wall a few feet from the floor, and some of the smoke found its way out there
9. On his back he lay, with his head drawn back between his shoulders so that he seemed to stare with his wide glassy eyes at the sooty beams of the cobwebbed ceiling
10. softens with its sooty folds
11. Schott had been born in Pittsburgh in the late 1800’s and migrated away from the rough and angry streets that were lined by sooty steel mills
12. mill pond just across the road from us, stood the sooty home
13. Thelma touched the blackened face and then rubbed her sooty fingers absentmindedly on her coveralls
14. Sooty mould on leaves
15. As he leaned into the bin his trousers parted and bared sooty flesh, uncovered by undergarments
16. gold tips on his sooty lashes and feel his warm breath on
17. He is completely blackened and sooty
18. Skeleton bones, gone brown after years of exposure to sooty torchlight, lay amidst fresher, more stubborn atrocities
19. In the air there passed sooty albatross with four–meter wingspans, birds aptly dubbed "vultures of the ocean," also gigantic petrels including several with arching wings, enthusiastic eaters of seal that are known as quebrantahuesos,* and cape pigeons, a sort of small duck, the tops of their bodies black and white—in short, a whole series of petrels, some whitish with wings trimmed in brown, others blue and exclusive to these Antarctic seas, the former "so oily," I told Conseil, "that inhabitants of the Faroe Islands simply fit the bird with a wick, then light it up
20. According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke
21. They looked quite young, but it was hard to be sure, for their faces were sooty and their clothing was filthy
22. He laughed and at the same time tears ran down his sooty cheeks
23. And her thick sooty lashes—timidity and love
24. By the engine stood a dark, motionless being, a sooty and grimy embodiment of tallness, in a sort of trance, with a heap of coals by his side: it was the engine-man
25. THE PLACE IN QUESTION WAS A SOOTY FACTORY in the old industrial district west of the Port Authority; from street level, you could see the tops of rusty letters spelling out Knickerbocker Mints welded to a scaffold on the roof
26. He wanted to come by the loft to pick out two or three pieces, but to William, in the winter light through the sooty window, it all looked reactionary, redundant, underwritten by the motions of a system too vast to comprehend, the way planetary spin inflects the movement of wastewater down a drain
27. Sooty floorboards, crumbling brick … it’s like Charlie’s dreamed everything he lived through here
28. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts
29. "Imagine you're an American writer, looking for material, far from home, wife, children, friends, in a cheerless hotel, on a bad gray day with naught but broken glass, chewed tobacco, and sooty snow in your soul
30. And tears rolled down the sooty strange face of the babe
31. Rapp headed for the only intact structure—a sooty brick fireplace standing against the cloudless sky
32. For a moment, Will watched Jim dance around over there, shirt uplifted, pants going on, while off in night country, panting, churning was this funeral train, all black-plumed cars, licorice-coloured cages, and a sooty calliope clamouring, banging three different hymns mixed and lost, maybe not there at all
33. Even now, a quarter-century later, my readers who were college boys then, make sooty excursions on drafty kerosene-stinking shortline trains to solve the mystery of why I've made them wait so long for my 'masterpiece
34. When the square suddenly seemed to begin to glow in an enchanted way and look wonderful in spite of its sooty trees and railings, Sara knew something was going on in the sky; and when it was at all possible to leave the kitchen without being missed or called back, she invariably stole away and crept up the flights of stairs, and, climbing on the old table, got her head and body as far out of the window as possible
35. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire
36. Often he would be surrounded by an eager circle, all waiting to be served; holding boat-spades, pike-heads, harpoons, and lances, and jealously watching his every sooty movement, as he toiled
37. As an amiable, broad-minded woman, she does not love her own country so much that she cannot find a place in her heart for London, too, and that which chiefly appeals to her in our elderly, sprawling, sooty, amusing and splendid old capital is the fact that she finds it interesting
