verb
- covering or becoming covered with soot
Usage: present participle of ‘soot’
Examples
- The old chimney was sooting the white walls nearby.
- Years of fires had been sooting the fireplace bricks.
- The candles were sooting the ceiling above them.
- Industrial smoke was sooting the building’s facade.
- The oil lamp kept sooting the glass shade.
- Heavy traffic was sooting the roadside buildings.