How do you use the word "soot" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "soot": It's carbon or soot. He wasn't crying. He just got soot in his eyes.

Soot Meaning

/suːt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounFine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

verbTo cover or dress with soot.

Sentence Examples

It's carbon or soot.

He wasn't crying. He just got soot in his eyes.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The chimney sweep's clothes were covered in black ____ after cleaning the fireplace.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The chimney sweep had to remove a large buildup of black ____ to prevent a potential fire hazard.

Word Origin & History

Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"soot land" — 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

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