Sentence examples for cloud of soot from inspiring English sources

In "Imaginary Portrait," an unusually intact, bright-eyed, baby-faced man emerges from a cloud of soot.

Once again a few principals have been skimmed from the cream of contemporary British (and Commonwealth) film, notably Ralph Fiennes, who, entering in a cloud of soot à la Pigpen, appears to have flown in from the last "Harry Potter" to stir up trouble as Hades.

So when the World Trade Center towers burned and collapsed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack -- and a cloud of soot and pulverized debris invaded his store two blocks away -- there was no insurance reimbursement for his $20,000 worth of ruined headgear and for $15,000 in lost revenue from his three-week shutdown, he says.

But everyone knew it as Black Town because of the immense clouds of soot that spewed from its refineries.

Its coal-powered factories and power stations pump out thick clouds of soot making it the world's number one emittor of greenhouse gases.

Its image suffers from association with 18-wheel tractor-trailers whose smokestacks gush clouds of soot and memories of the erratic diesels General Motors offered in the late 1970's.

What is the point of her city buying police cars fuelled by natural gas, she asks, when they will soon be overshadowed by clouds of soot?Despite all this grassroots environmentalism, America remains the biggest contributor to global warming, accounting for roughly a fifth of all the world's emissions.

We note a particularly high 2.89 g kg−1 BC emission factor for the rapeseed bonfires, reflective of intense flaming combustion that gave off visible clouds of soot.

In burning fossil fuels such as coal and gas to supply electricity to homes and workplaces, power plants discharge clouds of soot and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

To increase power and speed, truck-pull drivers modify their vehicles to dump excess fuel into the motor, which has the added effect of making the trucks emit clouds of soot.

The new data, drawn from city and academic records, shows a rapid deterioration in air quality as low-income cities grow unchecked and populations become unable to escape clouds of smog and soot from transport, industry, construction sites, farming and wood-burning in homes.