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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Thick black fog fills the room.

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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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All the newly formed monsters were crawling and hobbling in the same direction—toward a bank of black fog that swallowed the horizon like a storm front.

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The two floods combined in a steaming, boiling cataract and flowed on as one toward the black fog.

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