sootier; sootiest
1
a
: of, relating to, or producing soot
b
: soiled with soot
2
: of the color of soot
Examples of sooty in a Sentence
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Black carbon is a dark, sooty byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
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Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2019
By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
—Mike McCahill, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
The research team who made this discovery, which was described in the journal Animal Behaviour, studied vervet monkeys and sooty mangabeys in the Ivory Coast's Tai National Park.
—Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2010
Its borders seem to expand as trash bags begin appearing on the Badris’ property, and shots of swarming flies and sooty skies turn practically malevolent.
—Vulture, 16 July 2022
The Persian Polymath Avicenna compared the urine of newly pregnant women to chickpea water, which turned red in the later stages and a black, sooty color after childbirth.
—Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
Carbon condenses into sooty dust in the rapidly whirling wind, which glows in infrared light that is invisible to the human eye.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
At Race Point in Provincetown sightings included a sooty shearwater, 23 common murres, 600 razorbills, 30 black-legged kittiwakes, and 5 Iceland gulls.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2021
This is a novel of warrenlike buildings, sooty doors, small rooms that smell of mice and leather.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2019
By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
—Mike McCahill, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
The research team who made this discovery, which was described in the journal Animal Behaviour, studied vervet monkeys and sooty mangabeys in the Ivory Coast's Tai National Park.
—Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2010
Its borders seem to expand as trash bags begin appearing on the Badris’ property, and shots of swarming flies and sooty skies turn practically malevolent.
—Vulture, 16 July 2022
The Persian Polymath Avicenna compared the urine of newly pregnant women to chickpea water, which turned red in the later stages and a black, sooty color after childbirth.
—Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
Carbon condenses into sooty dust in the rapidly whirling wind, which glows in infrared light that is invisible to the human eye.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
At Race Point in Provincetown sightings included a sooty shearwater, 23 common murres, 600 razorbills, 30 black-legged kittiwakes, and 5 Iceland gulls.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2021
This is a novel of warrenlike buildings, sooty doors, small rooms that smell of mice and leather.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
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“Sooty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sooty. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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