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sootlike

a. Resembling soot or some aspect of it.

Usage examples of "sootlike".

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

Personnel swarmed over its hull, using sparking electrical instruments to restore the sootlike coating.

South America, I noticed a thin, one-eighth-inch-wide layer of a black sootlike sediment that had been dug through.

I see the tiny creature cling to the glass and think I can make out its sootlike speck of an eye.

I was visiting an archaeological dig in South America, I noticed a thin, one-eighth-inch-wide layer of a black sootlike sediment that had been dug through.