black fog

noun

1. (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.

Example Sentences

In “The Last Murder at the End of the World,” Turton crafts a compelling whodunit within a dystopian, post-apocalyptic backdrop as Emory, a resident of a small, secluded island that holds the remainder of the world’s population, is driven to unravel the suspicious death of teacher, Niema, or face the fatal consequences: the defenses that keep a lethal black fog at bay will come to a halt.

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It’s not a sailboat but a steamship, and that black fog out in the distance is an acrid tornado from the smokestack.

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What I love about DeLillo’s writing is how he identifies the purple black fog of disaster in the small turnover of details.

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It wasn’t the bad kind of crying, though, the kind that makes me feel like a black fog has entered my body and is poisoning me from the inside out.

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On Friday, thousands of tires were set ablaze, creating a thick black fog that protesters hoped would guard them from the Israeli snipers.

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