Sentence examples for factory soot from inspiring English sources

The industrial revolution replaced the weavers' cottage with the mean terrace and the tenement, where backyards often grew no more than clothes poles and factory soot blackened any leaf that grew.

Of course, she makes clear, this was when they were new: in the late 1700's, and 50 years before Emerson observed that England's once-green countryside pastured sheep black with factory soot.

At the time, 80% of the country's electricity came from coal, factories belched soot and grit into the air and I could count on one hand the number of times a year I saw blue sky.

One morning he crawled out from under the outside wall of the factory, after scraping out soot with his hands from a clogged flue.

The factory's emissions of soot dirty the clothes in the dry cleaner, imposing a significant cost even though they are not interacting voluntarily with the factory.

Coal-fired furnaces in homes and factories had pumped out soot during a cold snap, contributing to the dense, smoky fog known as smog.

We are shown, for example, how light-colored moths died out and were replaced by dark-colored moths as soot from factories darkened the buildings into which they blended.

Yet local officials may not be so willing to close a soot-belching factory or a sweatshop that provides most of the jobs and tax revenues in their small city.

Sensory perception of pollution sources was stressed throughout the discussions with participants using terms such as seeing a cloud of smoke covering the area, pungent smells from factories and dumpsites and soot falling on people and buildings.

There was the soot, from the factories and smokestacks.

Moseley dates from the late 19th century, when the idea of the British home was at its aspirational peak, and the architects did not hold back, making it the go-to address for Birmingham's industrialists who, high on a hill overlooking the centre, could keep an eye on their factories without filling their lungs with soot.