How to use soot in a sentence

More sentences with soot

• The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.From the entry draw
• Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.From the entry grime
• His coat was sooted from sliding down the chimney.From the entry sooted
• Sip the perry of the Black Worchester and you will belch clouds of soot.2017, Andi Watson, Glister. From the entry perry
• Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry soot ball
• Or do you feel beautiful—I ask you—if you don’t get your face all smeared with soot?2005, Plautus, translated by Amy Richlin, “Towelheads (Poenulus)”, in Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus (The Joan…. From the entry beauteosity
• She decided that in the future she'd take scales and gurry over soot and ash.1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry gurry
• Soot had missed his shot, and hit the already juice-blackened wall behind the spittoon.1989, Ann Gabriel, South Texas. From the entry ptooey
• Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457. From the entry fart
• Out there in the winter streets a few ashen anthroparians scuttling yet through the falling soot.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188. From the entry anthroparian
• Each city, region and country has a specific Aeroir, or combination of potentially harmful elements, such as hydrocarbons, soot or sulfur.2015 November 23, Jeffrey Edalatpour, “Smog-Infused Meringues and Tacos Tell the Truth about the Air We Eat”, in KQED, archived from the…. From the entry aeroir
• He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35. From the entry soot ball
• And though we keep the window closed I swear one can hardly breathe for the stench and the soot."1940, Joseph Shearing [pseudonym; Marjorie Bowen], “Part One”, in The Crime of Laura Sarelle, [Cleveland, Oh.]: DigiCat, published 2022. From the entry condole
• "Yes, sure's Gord made liddle apples, 'er'll crack up, an' seems ter me thet would soot some people to a nicety."1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry to a nicety
• The anterior and posterior skin of the upper chest and shoulders demonstrated irregularly jagged borders with areas of soot and charring focally.2016 March, Amanda M McLemore et al., “Suicide by Bomb, with Decapitation”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry rare
• Such soot blowers often have movable jets so that the jet can be directed towards different parts of the tubeplate in turn.1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194. From the entry tubeplate
• Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure. From the entry grime
• The Principal Elements in the composition of the soot which lodges upon boiler shells and tubes, are carbon, ulmin, asbolin, creosote , and capnomor.1913 June, Edward J. Clarke, “Steam Boiler Explosions”, in The National Engineer, volume 17, page 338. From the entry asbolin
• At low firing rates it is important to minimize the amount of overfire air to prevent cooling of the volatile matter resulting in incomplete combustion and soot formation.1989 October, Central Boiler Plants (Technical Manual; TM 5-650), [Washington, D.C.?]: Headquarters, Department of the Army, →OCLC, page…. From the entry overfire
• When Jim brought the bride home from church that Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it!1925 July, Alfred Edgar Coppard, “The Field of Mustard”, in The Dial, volume 79, page 52. From the entry rumbullion
• For a moderate-priced coal we guarantee this the cleanest in the market, burning to a clean white ash, and no soot that adheres to your stove or cookingware.1900 December 3, The Daily Journal, volume 22, number 261, Freeport, Ill., page 1. From the entry cookingware
• His rumpled clothes were streaked with soot from the day-coach of the Richmond train that could be heard now, bell aclang, grinding away from the southbound side of the depot.1953, May Davies Martenet, Taw Jameson, Alfred A. Knopf, page 143. From the entry aclang

Meaning of soot

1. noun Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
2. verb To cover or dress with soot.

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Questions about soot in a sentence

How do you use soot in a sentence?

Soot is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.”

What is a short sentence with soot?

“His coat was sooted from sliding down the chimney.”

What does soot mean?

Soot means fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.