Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling soot or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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soot +‎ -like

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Examples

  • ColinC writes: After recent snowfall, I and many others have noticed a black, sootlike substance settling on the snow, cars, and dogs around town.

    Strange Black Substance? at cvillenews.com 2003

  • ColinC writes: After recent snowfall, I and many others have noticed a black, sootlike substance settling on the snow, cars, and dogs around town.

    2003 January archive at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Meanwhile from the steppe slow, ponderous grey oxen with sharp horns are drawing an endless succession of wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich, black, sootlike dust.

    Through Russia 2003

  • He wiped his face on his sleeve, thereby smudging his cheeks with the sootlike powder.

    Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

  • Meanwhile from the steppe slow, ponderous grey oxen with sharp horns are drawing an endless succession of wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich, black, sootlike dust.

    Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

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