coaly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of coaly
Example Sentences
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She could smell coaly deposits on the surfaces, cordite, paraffin, like fireworks in the park on bonfire night, or northern streets in December.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013
I'm told Broomielaw means 'beloved green place,' so it can't always have been the coaly hole it is now.
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
I'm afloat, I'm afloat on the coaly black Tyne!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various
Again, the Middle Laurentian abounds in carbon or coaly matter.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
To this theory it must not be objected, that all the strata of coal, which are found in the same place or neighbourhood, are not reduced to that caput mortuum or perfect coaly state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
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