Sentence examples for soot black from inspiring English sources

Soot black and grey, with a hint of red brick, they are emphatically Lowry's flowers: hard as clinker and one with the scene.

The SEM EDS indicates a high concentration of carbon in the paint layer from which we infer that carbon black or soot black is the pigment.

Long-term fire histories provide insight into the effects of climate, ecology and humans on fire activity; they can be generated using accumulation rates of charcoal and soot black carbon in lacustrine sediments.

It has its own identity, its own zip code, its own army that invades your heart and turns it soot black with scorched earth.

Soot-black chimneys are rising from below.

Which is not surprising, as her apartment in the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem is speckled with soot-black mold.

Sotare, or chimney sweeps, which are herrings grilled until soot-black, don't do a whole lot for me, either.

Soot-black, fog-fouled Chicago, its scummy river speckled with rust and grease, was, he thought, an apparition of the American future.

What conventional formal category, or categories, can describe Harold Mendez's filmy, soot-black Veronica veils made from dryer sheets, ink and fabric softener?

One is Junichi Takagi, a tiny seventy-one-year-old with soot-black hands who is reputedly Japan's last artisan of carpenter's adzes.

Jagged eryngium, the last of the lacy umbellifers, the russet spires of Veronicastrum and soot-black echinacea are what you should be looking out for.