Soot has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Eva climbed the stairs to Romer's office, trying to analyse the complex smell in the stairwell - a cross between mushrooms and soot, ancient stour and mildew, she decided. | |
| 2. | It's carbon or soot. | |
| 3. | When we think of nineteenth-century chimney sweeps, we think of ragamuffins with soot on their cheeks. | |
| 4. | You can see from the soot on the walls that the fire reached this floor as well. | |
| 5. | He wasn't crying. He just got soot in his eyes. | |
| 6. | Snow is white, but soot is black. | |
| 7. | Snow is white, soot is black. | |
| 8. | His face was full of soot. | |
| 9. | He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. | |
| 10. | The soot, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered down the huge chimneys. |