Example Sentences

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Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

And me wi' two soots as refuses to be wore out not to mention this here.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

He won’t go into one o’ your soots, Mr Dutch, I know.”

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by Fenn, George Manville

You would hardly think that all those substances which fly about London in the form of soots and blacks are the very beauty and life of the flame.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Look at the soots that fly off from the flame: see what an imperfect combustion it is, because it cannot get enough air.

From The Chemical History of a Candle by Crookes, William, Sir