SOOT in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SOOT, such as:

1. The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.
2. One small fire in the kitchen covered the whole house in soot.
3. The building would have to be sandblasted to remove the black soot.
4. Yas'm tis pow'ful smoky an de soot jes' ruinin Miss Pitty's silk cuttins.
5. No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
soot
 n.  fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels
Classic Sentence:
1  Yas'm tis pow'ful smoky an de soot jes' ruinin Miss Pitty's silk cuttins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
3  The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
4  They often admitted into the room a good deal of smoke and soot; but at the same time all the light and air that there was came through them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
5  The men in these mills were all black with soot, and hollow-eyed and gaunt; they worked with fierce intensity, rushing here and there, and never lifting their eyes from their tasks.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
6  Karataev, on account of the warm weather and for convenience at work, was wearing only trousers and a tattered shirt as black as soot.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
7  From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
8  No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
9  A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXI
10  The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
12  Henceforth, it is apt at all roles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the murderer applies its rouge.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
Example Sentence:
1  One small fire in the kitchen covered the whole house in soot.
2  The building would have to be sandblasted to remove the black soot.
3  A 19th-century steam engine chugging down the tracks.He said the trip was "romantic," describing "thick clouds of white steam going past and then bits of soot coming through from the engine."