[
UK
/sˈʊti/
]
[ US /ˈsuti/ ]
[ US /ˈsuti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
-
covered with or as if with soot
a sooty chimney
How To Use sooty In A Sentence
- The belt may make a squealing noise and throw off sooty black particles of rubber.
- They sport homed helmets, sooty eye makeup, and long, black, stringy hair.
- A sooty tern: dozens were spotted in New Jersey – far north of their tropical home – after Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. Weatherwatch: Birds of the hurricane
- We have seen sooty black material associated with native copper from the Eagle mine that is almost certainly chalcocite.
- Of course, once they tried to get things out, the roof had collapsed in, covering everything in sooty ashes.
- But despite being so rubbish and boring that it'd be more fun to watch a TV show about a static eggcup full of gravel from Norfolk, Sooty is back! Rosie O’Donnell Less Drunk Than Ever Before
- The sooty shearwater flies low over deep water about 50 miles out to sea.
- Another virus managed to get transferred from a species of monkey called the sooty mangabey, and this is known as HIV - 2.
- They were still sooty with the remains of mascara when she was finished, but it was an improvement. JUST BETWEEN US
- If you notice black sooty fungus, brown or black spots of decay on leaves or flowers, or broken discoloration on leaves or stems of your orchids, they may be harboring a fungus, bacteria or virus.