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Definition of sooty in English: sootyadjectivesootier, sootiest ˈsʊtiˈsʊdi 1Covered with or coloured like soot. 被煤烟覆盖的;煤烟色的 his olive skin and sooty eyes 他那黄褐色的皮肤和乌黑的眼睛。 Example sentencesExamples - The sooty shearwater flies low over deep water about 50 miles out to sea.
- 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.
- 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.
- Once alighted, we naively succumbed to the temptation of leaning over the railway bridge at Haworth and got a well-deserved faceful of sooty filth along with many others.
- What madness drives these sooty pilgrims to wander to and fro on dirty city streets?
- What's with this sooty blackness that covers my fruit at harvest?
- 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.
- Still, for smokers to light up, there is the small kerosene lamp, its sooty flame guarded by a snipped cigarette packet.
- Another member of the team once wrote that although Mr Green prepared meals in a blizzard with only a piece of canvas to protect him, his cheerful grin never deserted his sooty face.
- On the sooty back window of the bus, someone had drawn a swastika.
- Wall Street was transformed into a scene from the beginning of the last century, perceived as though through a vaseline lens, the effect wrought by sooty air shot though with sunshine.
- The Jewish internees considered the policy anti-Semitic: their quarters were two abandoned, sooty and leaking railway sheds with five cold water taps and six latrines for 720 men.
- 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.
- The rocks are covered with a black sooty layer of manganese oxides but are quite fresh beneath this weathering crust.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dirty engine with lots of sooty deposits can worsen fuel economy.
- Of course, once they tried to get things out, the roof had collapsed in, covering everything in sooty ashes.
- Trying to mix the colour of the bricks, I produced something that reminded me of strawberries - far from the dark, sooty colour I needed.
- For me now, it is the colour of grey, sooty, diesel-smelling exhaust smoke blowing in my face.
- 1.1 Used in names of birds and other animals that are mainly blackish or brownish black, e.g. sooty tern.
用于颜色主要为乌黑或棕黑的鸟类和其他动物乌黑的;棕黑的(如乌燕鸥) Example sentencesExamples - Got a few lifers for my bird list too, including greater and lesser frigate birds, sooty falcon and olive bee-eater.
- 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.
- The precursor to HIV - 2 does not kill sooty mangabeys.
- Another virus managed to get transferred from a species of monkey called the sooty mangabey, and this is known as HIV - 2.
- 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.
Synonyms black, dark, pitch-dark, black as pitch
Derivativesadverb I scaled the fence - one of the benefits of hoboing for 19 years is that barbed-wire fences look like screen doors - and sootily rode the predictable, comfortable Metro back to my apartment. Example sentencesExamples - Fear flowed like mist through the twisting thoroughfares and mazy alleyways, trickling even into that most intricately curved and crevice-like street where a sootily flickering lantern marked the doorway to the tavern.
- Forget any ideas of Dick Van Dyke cavorting sootily on Victorian rooftops; chimney sweeping is a modern, regulated business with its own trade association and training courses.
- The movie is set in the harsh, sootily glamorous new Russian business world.
- However, it is a disadvantage of polybutylene terephthalate moldings that on contact with a flame they burn very sootily.
noun The high sootiness of the clay could be just a concentration effect, and the glass droplets made by algae. Example sentencesExamples - The cities of the country differ from one another only in degrees of sootiness, smelliness, noisiness and crowdedness.
- The colour should be rich, deep and sparkling with no sootiness.
- The sootiness on the bridge of his nose adds to the effect, as many silvers have similar facial masking.
- In this activity, biodiesel and some other fuels are tested and compared for sootiness and acidity.
Definition of sooty in US English: sootyadjectiveˈsʊdiˈso͝odē 1Covered with or colored like soot. 被煤烟覆盖的;煤烟色的 his olive skin and sooty eyes 他那黄褐色的皮肤和乌黑的眼睛。 the front of the fireplace was blackened and sooty Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- On the sooty back window of the bus, someone had drawn a swastika.
- The rocks are covered with a black sooty layer of manganese oxides but are quite fresh beneath this weathering crust.
- 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.
- The Jewish internees considered the policy anti-Semitic: their quarters were two abandoned, sooty and leaking railway sheds with five cold water taps and six latrines for 720 men.
- 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.
- Trying to mix the colour of the bricks, I produced something that reminded me of strawberries - far from the dark, sooty colour I needed.
- 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.
- What's with this sooty blackness that covers my fruit at harvest?
- A dirty engine with lots of sooty deposits can worsen fuel economy.
- For me now, it is the colour of grey, sooty, diesel-smelling exhaust smoke blowing in my face.
- Another member of the team once wrote that although Mr Green prepared meals in a blizzard with only a piece of canvas to protect him, his cheerful grin never deserted his sooty face.
- 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.
- Of course, once they tried to get things out, the roof had collapsed in, covering everything in sooty ashes.
- Once alighted, we naively succumbed to the temptation of leaning over the railway bridge at Haworth and got a well-deserved faceful of sooty filth along with many others.
- Still, for smokers to light up, there is the small kerosene lamp, its sooty flame guarded by a snipped cigarette packet.
- What madness drives these sooty pilgrims to wander to and fro on dirty city streets?
- The sooty shearwater flies low over deep water about 50 miles out to sea.
- Wall Street was transformed into a scene from the beginning of the last century, perceived as though through a vaseline lens, the effect wrought by sooty air shot though with sunshine.
- 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.
- 1.1 Used in names of birds and other animals that are mainly blackish or brownish black, e.g. sooty tern.
用于颜色主要为乌黑或棕黑的鸟类和其他动物乌黑的;棕黑的(如乌燕鸥) Example sentencesExamples - The precursor to HIV - 2 does not kill sooty mangabeys.
- Got a few lifers for my bird list too, including greater and lesser frigate birds, sooty falcon and olive bee-eater.
- 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.
- Another virus managed to get transferred from a species of monkey called the sooty mangabey, and this is known as HIV - 2.
- 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.
Synonyms black, dark, pitch-dark, black as pitch
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