How to Use sooty in a Sentence

sooty

adjective

• The air was more polluted in the days before the Clean Air Act of 1970, and the terraces got sooty.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Gray paint on the side of the building was still sooty and peeling, the sidewalk mottled and black.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Now all the freight cars were filled to the top with sooty iron ore, giving Guerin no choice but to climb on top for the ride home.
  — Michael Hardy, Wired, 27 Apr. 2020
• In the end, there is only one person who still needs Smoot’s help — the boy who cast the sooty shadow in the first place.
  — Frank Viva, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• There’s a good chance the French government can find a replacement by 2021 and be rid of the sooty stuff for good.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2018
• Then, the first stage safely—if a bit sooty—made a near-perfect landing back on Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017
• McNamee wrapped his arms around him, the boy screaming the same phrase over and over into the district chief's sooty coat.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• Then there's the Graving Dock Tavern that served its last pint over a decade ago, but still soberly stands up aside the sooty verges.
  — Paul Talling, CNN, 10 July 2017
• For performances in the past, he's adorned his eyes with bloody scratch-like liner and ultra-sooty smoky eyes.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 20 Apr. 2021
• His makeup was more punk-inspired this time around, too, with sooty, lived-in black liner.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 16 May 2018
• The glacier looked a bit sooty instead of pristine, perhaps from the ashes of wildfires raging a province to the west.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Howard said that three or four sooty terns (seabirds) working a weedline is often a good sign of dolphin.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• Fingertips blackened by heating the drug may leave sooty stains on walls.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019
• The fuel mix was now richer in oxygen, the burn cleaner and less sooty, more powerful.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• The American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) are easy to spot with their dark, sooty plumage, bald black heads, and short tails.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
• The sooty eyeliner, atomic red hair, and combat boots Stone's been wearing while shooting the film point to punk rock roots.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019
• If coal is king, then China, which burns half the world’s coal supply every year, is a sooty emperor.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
• Another photo from a nearby apartment shows a sooty door with a large hole above the doorknob.
  — CBS News, 15 July 2017
• The smaller body off to the right of the image—little more than a sooty-looking blotch in the 1845 sketch—is a dwarf galaxy that is slowly being reeled in by the larger mass.
  — TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Old-timers will tell you the air around Pittsburgh used to be so thick with sooty particles that city workers would change into new shirts at lunch.
  — Sharon Kelly, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Researchers continue to study the long-term health impact on people exposed to sooty air at the Trade Center site.
  — Frank Eltman, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Make no mistake: running from my sweet embrace leaves a sooty set of carbon footprints.
  — Sarah Lazarus, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• These were shiny and modern, in contrast to the sooty wood-burning stove in back, which might have been from another century.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• Eastern phoebe The Eastern phoebe is a small bird with dark gray-brown coloring on the back and wings, a little olive-brown or yellow on its sides and breast, and a sooty brown head.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Tubs and fireplaces are overturned, bathed in sooty roof tiles and fallen drywall — the ashes of everyday life.
  — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• Firefighters were sooty and exhausted after days of being forced to retreat as the blaze leaped over fire lines.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• Some of the plant sap and insect excreta drop on the foliage to provide a substrate for the sooty mold fungus that now coats the leaves of your allamanda.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2017
• Its glass towers give way to lush green hillsides, a welcome escape from Beijing and Shanghai’s sooty gray air.
  — Don Lee, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
• Speaking of new, some of you may have been seeing plain, sooty gray birds invading your feeding stations.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 29 Mar. 2018
• Fifty floors up, facing east, a pair of large horizontal windows were punched out, and the glass and metal facade above appeared scorched and sooty.
  — John Leland and Luis Ferre-Sadurni, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024