How do you use Soot in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like lampblack or smut, plus the exact meaning.
Soot in a sentence
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Soot meaning
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Using Soot
- The main meaning on this page is: Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
- Useful related words include: carbon black, lampblack, smut, crock.
- In the example corpus, soot often appears in combinations such as: the soot, of soot, soot in.
Context around Soot
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Soot
- In this selection, "soot" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forming, gets, simulate, gas, particles and assumed stand out and add context to how "soot" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5 or soot and and wildfire soot had blanketed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "soot" sits close to words such as adopters, airfields and allowable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with soot
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Soot staining the walls of the inside of the toilets. (10 words)
First Christmas as a carer is like trying to juggle soot. (11 words)
But, 100 years ago, our clothes would have been black from soot from burning coal. (15 words)
Within a day or two, toxic clouds of pulverized rock, sulfate aerosoles and wildfire soot had blanketed the planet, blocking all but a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy and bringing photosynthesis to a virtual halt for the only known time in history. (44 words)
The President, NTS, Professor Udegbunam Ele, said soot in the Niger Delta has become a hydra-headed monster, which the government at all levels must develop a political will to put an end to. (34 words)
Secondly, atmospheric longevity; would the quantities of soot assumed in the models remain in the atmosphere for as long as projected and would far more soot precipitate as black rain much sooner. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Black-body radiation is emitted from soot, gas, and fuel particles, though the soot particles are too small to behave like perfect blackbodies.
Secondly, atmospheric longevity; would the quantities of soot assumed in the models remain in the atmosphere for as long as projected and would far more soot precipitate as black rain much sooner.
The soot had been generated by an arc-process between two graphite electrodes in a helium atmosphere where the electrode material evaporates and condenses forming soot in the quenching atmosphere.
A handful of New Jersey counties — Bergen, Camden, Mercer, Middlesex, and Ocean — recorded worse grades for soot this year than last year.
But, 100 years ago, our clothes would have been black from soot from burning coal.
But if you turn to the studies, you would quickly see that soot is a latent form of gas poisoning.
He’ll be lucky if he gets soot after his recent outburst in County Hall.
In this version, the actor playing Pete keeps their natural skin tone while makeup is smeared on their face to simulate soot.
Shredding the scrap metal risks fouling the air with a range of pollutants, including particulate matter or soot, toxic volatile organic compounds and mercury.
Soot staining the walls of the inside of the toilets.
The President, NTS, Professor Udegbunam Ele, said soot in the Niger Delta has become a hydra-headed monster, which the government at all levels must develop a political will to put an end to.
To this end, she and her team incorporated a range of unconventional materials in the Harfoot costumes, including vegetable dyes, berries and soot.
Within a day or two, toxic clouds of pulverized rock, sulfate aerosoles and wildfire soot had blanketed the planet, blocking all but a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy and bringing photosynthesis to a virtual halt for the only known time in history.
Among artworks on view are early paintings from the 1960s utilizing lampblack pigment—powdered soot created from burning oil–which she rubbed and pushed into her canvases.
Children who spent their life in soot often suffered from skin cancers and were sometimes trapped and died in the narrow confines of a domestic chimney.
First Christmas as a carer is like trying to juggle soot.
For example, industries are urging Trump to reconsider and relax the Biden administration’s new rule for fine particulate matter known as PM 2.5, or soot.
Once up there, up above rainclouds, that soot might stay suspended for up to a decade.
Runoff and wastewater already contain high amounts of phosphorous, nitrogen, soot, pesticides and heat – not to mention sewage – that can harm water quality, aquatic life and the local economy.
Six of the 10 cities with the most soot pollution were in California, and two more were in the West: Medford, Oregon, and greater Phoenix.
Common combinations with soot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the soot 14×
- of soot 11×
- soot in 8×
- soot from 6×
- soot is 6×
- and soot 6×
- black soot 6×
- soot and 6×
- or soot 5×
- that soot 4×