Voorbeelden van sooty

• All the buildings were crumbling and everything was sooty and dirty.

• A thunderstorm erupted and black sooty rain fell.

• a sooty black kitten

• The aphid produces large quantities of honeydew which cover the foliage and provide an ideal substrate for the growth of sooty moulds.

• And yet, what is a reader to do when he or she encounters golden or sooty?

• Large infestations of whiteflies may thus adversely affect their hosts, both by causing excessive sap loss and through sooty mould interfering with photosynthesis.

• Then a sooty figure tumbles out of the fireplace into 'a handsome bed-chamber'.

• Infestation by the psyllid may result in the death of the plant, but most often results in defoliation and growth of sooty mould on the depositions of honeydew.

• For instance, the ceilings of taxis quickly become sooty as a result of smoke fumes.

• Sooty and sulphurous, the corporation has, or so it is believed, a long history of letting down the side.

• Sooty dust usually arrives at the same time as the grit, stains anything it falls upon, particularly washing.

• Coal as a source of energy is much discredited, because it is dirty and sooty.

• There are parts of our inheritance—dereliction, dirty rivers and sooty air—which we need to get rid of as fast as we can.

• It is not only the sooty particulates and the lead, but chlorofluorocarbons from the blown foam and the dioxins from the plastics that are dangerous.

• In fact, editorials on this subject are frequently excellent examples of the pan calling the kettle sooty-bottomed.

• Is not this a case of the pot calling the pan rather sooty?

• Dirty water, sooty air, the fumes from charcoal cooking fires, soil erosion and flash floods are all hazards that have long since been tackled in the rich world.

• By the time he got to the end of his journey, the gauze was sooty and dirty, giving a clear sign of the pollution that then existed.