(1) What's with this sooty blackness that covers my fruit at harvest?(2) To think that the offices of a big film company had given way to a sooty kitchen with coal stoves, that washermen did the laundry where the beautiful people had once gathered.(3) But they were delighted and amazed when he turned up safe, but very thin and sooty , after an incredible four weeks stuck inside a neighbour's chimney.(4) Still, for smokers to light up, there is the small kerosene lamp, its sooty flame guarded by a snipped cigarette packet.(5) Of course, once they tried to get things out, the roof had collapsed in, covering everything in sooty ashes.(6) On the cliffs above the colonies, we encountered nests of the light-mantled sooty albatross; on the plateau, huge wandering albatross chicks sat like white, fluffy lighthouses.(7) A dirty engine with lots of sooty deposits can worsen fuel economy.(8) In the early morning light, last night's wind-danced lamps will become oily, sooty , little clay bowls as you try to find the garden under the rows of deyas.(9) And I am rattled till my screws come loose, I am rattled like, like… the way, when I am in a mood, I attack and scour a sooty pot.(10) For me now, it is the colour of grey, sooty , diesel-smelling exhaust smoke blowing in my face.(11) During the winter he would spend hours there weighing carbonettes into sacks, a once-white towel wrapped around his head for protection against the sooty dust.(12) On the sooty back window of the bus, someone had drawn a swastika.(13) As the dinghy approaches the shores of North Avon Island, flocks of sooty and noddy terns swirl up and wheel above the dinghy, squawking loudly at our intrusion.(14) Then, when the motor clattered into action, it belched a sooty puff from the exhaust pipe, terrified nearby cats and deafened all around as you drove away.(15) The sooty shearwater flies low over deep water about 50 miles out to sea.(16) The rocks are covered with a black sooty layer of manganese oxides but are quite fresh beneath this weathering crust.
