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Meanings of sooty in английском
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal.
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Синонимы
Examples for "jet"
Examples for "jet"
1
However, the jet's auxiliary power unit was able to continue supplying power.
2
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: beechen; russet; train; jet; unapt.
3
Companies in participating countries compete for work building components of the jet.
4
However, there were no fatal passenger jet airliner accidents in the year.
5
Least Developed Countries' proposal -Levy on international jet and shipping fuels.
1
On one side, glaring dazzling light; on the other, cavernous pitchy darkness.
2
The staircase was a winding one and led down into pitchy darkness.
3
Above that round yellow ray, faces were unrecognizable in the pitchy blackness.
4
The night was quite dark, but not what is called pitchy dark.
5
A raw wind, driving snow, pitchy darkness, slush and everything objectionable underfoot.
1
Through the glass I could see the tiny nest of jet-black hair.
2
The jet-black cat is thought by many to be the most desirable.
3
He wore a jet-black beard that grew close and dropped compactly down.
4
Presently a tall, dark fellow advanced, with jet-black moustache and red cheeks.
5
This one was a young boy with a jet-black mane of hair.
1
At Zhong Xian more coal-black concrete factories pile up the river bank.
2
It is coal-black, and has a long neck with a brass pipe.
3
He had long brown locks, and his mustache and eyebrows were coal-black.
4
Her face was a mass of puckers burnt through by coal-black eyes.
5
The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
Usage of sooty in английском
1
She wiped them away with a sooty hand, pink in the palm.
2
Cold spots, writing on the wall, sooty handprints that appear and disappear.
3
Among them were gannets, sooty terns, and tropical birds in large numbers.
4
It was a livid sky, and sooty clouds were scudding across it.
5
Nudge was on a step stool, spraying the sooty ceiling with cleaner.
6
Ahead, the great locomotive was pouring out a cloud of sooty smoke.
7
Then I shook my sooty pail at him and asked for milk.
8
They are as irresponsive as a sooty kettle when you strike it.
9
And as she spoke she laid her hand on his sooty arm.
10
They just spilled over her sooty lashes and slid down her cheeks.
11
Snow falling through sooty air turned gray before it reached the ground.
12
I was reminded of a vast, empty cathedral swathed in sooty velvet.
13
It was a forgotten corncob pipe of the Professor's, blackened and sooty.
14
The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.
15
Their sooty slate roofs tilted sharply, with tall steeples and shuttered gables.
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Low, sooty clouds scudded over the woods and hills on the mainland.
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