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How to use smut in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Smut means soot. Example: “She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation.”

Examples of smut by meaning

nounA flake of ash or soot.

  • She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation.1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
  • “You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 56
  • “Do I have a smut on my nose, Mr.2012, Kasey Michaels, A Masquerade in the Moonlight

nounSexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.

  • The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects.2013 October 9, Suzanne Moore, “Sex is everywhere you look, but the semiology of smut never changes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

nounAny of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the...

  • If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.2021 June 16, Phil Gates, “Country diary: in the fight to survive, red campion is a surprise battleground”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

verbTo clear of the smut fungus.

  • to smut grain for the mill

More sentences with smut

  • She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page. From the entry AO3
  • "Shut up and bring on the smut, Ronnie!" someone shouted.2007, Duff Brenna, The Altar of the Body: A Novel, Picador, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry yuck fou
  • Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity.1947, Miriam Allen deFord, “Laureate of Bohemia: George Sterlin”, in They Were San Franciscans, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers…. From the entry vituperation
  • “If it failed for me, it was only as smut; the book, at least in large black and white photocopy form, was not a one-handed read.2012, Todd A. Comer, Joseph Michael Sommers, Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels, McFarland…. From the entry one-handed
  • Gutenberg made so much money from the smut book that he was able to print inexpensive copies of the Bible, which he gave away to anyone who asked.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry darned
  • I haven't really ventured outside Philedom, but I did check out a male written "smutfic" once because I was curious how guys would write "smut." I was disappointed.2000 July 20, Bast Black, “Re: Writers and Readers of "fic"”, in alt.fan.david-duchovny (Usenet). From the entry smutfic

Meaning of smut

  1. noun Soot.
  2. noun A flake of ash or soot.
  3. noun Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.

Full definition of smut

Questions about smut in a sentence

How do you use smut in a sentence?
Smut is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation.”
What is a short sentence with smut?
“to smut grain for the mill”
What does smut mean?
Smut means soot.

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