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
The two floods combined in a steaming, boiling cataract and flowed on as one toward the black fog.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The black fog seeped into her body, turning her bones into moist Styrofoam.
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
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