Sentence examples for pile of soot from inspiring English sources

And all 23 of the black-and-white prints in the exhibition, "Faces of War: Children of Belfast," by Michael Schwartz, were ruined; some had dropped to the floor, creating a pile of soot, shards of glass and curled photographs.

Sweep features an unlikely friendship between a girl who is a chimney sweep and "her monster," or a pile of soot that was left to her by her caretaker and has since transformed.

Up ahead there was a pile of soot-blackened rubble inside the sort of walled courtyard she associated with holy places and private villas.

DURING the looting that followed the fall of Baghdad in April last year, the ten-storey headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) was burgled and torched before it collapsed into a pile of soot-stained rubble.

"Everything was white, and we were walking piles of soot".

We park in front of our house and see piles of soot and leaves along the door and garage, the winds have blown it all up against the house.

There is also, alas, a lot of soot.

Towering piles of snow, crusted in black soot from months of absorbing car exhaust, line these mud-puddled streets, giving the scene that extra touch of beauty.

Clumps of soot tumbled down.

Early one recent morning, on the banks of a dry stream, with the air tasting of soot and sand, Ms. Tede stood over a pile of dark embers, making charcoal.

The walls are hung with thick blankets of soot and in the middle is a huge pyre, piled high with coals.