black fog
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022
What I love about DeLillo’s writing is how he identifies the purple black fog of disaster in the small turnover of details.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2022
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.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
He pounded in vain; no further reply came from the enchantresses, and even the window suddenly darkened with an impenetrable black fog.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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