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Example sentences for "black smoke"

  • Between horizon and sky, far up the coast, over the sea floated a thread of black smoke.

  • He saw the thread of black smoke increased to a wide plume and very near.

  • Down the broad river--never so broad as here--welled a cloud of black smoke, and a big steamer surged into view.

  • A great spout of black smoke shot up from that destroyer and she was out of commission.

  • By this time the smokestack of the Bronx was vomiting forth dense clouds of black smoke.

  • The one at the northeast of the Bronx was making a long streak of black smoke on the sky, and there was no such appearance over the other.

  • If there was no black smoke, he was to return to the deck without making any sign.

  • As the captain had instructed the engineer to do, he had caused the fires to be reduced and a change of fuel used so that the smokestack of the Bronx was just beginning to send up volumes of black smoke.

  • High in the air hung a cloud of black smoke, caused by some chemicals that had burned harmlessly save for that pall.

  • The flames died out in section after section, until no more could be seen--only clouds of black smoke.

  • One or two small things were carried out from a little addition to the main structure, and then the rescuers were driven back by the heat of the flames, as well as by the rolling clouds of black smoke.

  • Nothing but that trail of black smoke as we stood on the top of Boroboedoer at dawn and watched.

  • For fifty miles along the horizon, a trail of black smoke swept like the trail of black smoke which a train leaves in its wake on a still day.

  • And the one in the center, old Merapi was belching out a trail of black smoke.

  • The flames were invisible against the bright sunlight; the roof had already fallen in in part, the windows were belching dense clouds of black smoke.

  • But what they were unable to account for at first was the dense volume of black smoke which, impelled by the west wind, came driving past their window.

  • The cloud of thick, black smoke, rising slowly in the evening air, added to the general cheerlessness of the scene.

  • Black smoke poured up from the decks of the Isla de Cuba, and on the flag-ship fire was completing the work of destruction begun by the American shells.

  • Shoreward, inside the harbour, could be seen a long line of black smoke.

  • Huge volumes of black smoke, edged with red flame, rolled from every port and shot hole of the Vizcaya, as from the Teresa.

  • Black smoke is not combustible, it is like lampblack and cannot be burned after having been produced.

  • Yes; the fireman's oil valve should be opened just wide enough to permit a sufficient amount of oil to be fed to produce a good fire, but not wide enough to waste oil or produce a volume of black smoke.

  • Black smoke consists of small particles of carbon suspended in the gases of combustion and indicates incomplete combustion.

  • The "Maria Teresa," with silent guns and masses of black smoke ascending to the sky, was headed for the land.

  • No more puffs of black smoke came up from the distant repeller, and the vast spreading mass of clouds moved seaward, dropping down upon St. George's Channel in a rain of stone dust.

  • When the latter vessel perceived the approach of this turtle-backed object, squirting little jets of black smoke as she replied to the orders from the repeller, there was great amazement on board.

  • The director reflected a moment, and then ordered that the signals should be given at every discharge of the gun, and that the columns of black smoke should be shot up to their greatest height.

  • It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.

  • At the same time, far away in the southeast the masts and upperworks of three ironclads rose one after the other out of the sea, beneath clouds of black smoke.

  • By midnight the blazing trees along the slopes of Richmond Park and the glare of Kingston Hill threw their light upon a network of black smoke, blotting out the whole valley of the Thames and extending as far as the eye could reach.

  • Back about the point where they had last turned a string of black smoke-puffs flashed out rapidly.

  • Woof" came another shell, and then in quick succession another and another, the last one dead ahead and with such correct elevation that, a second later, the machine flashed through the streaming black smoke of the burst.

  • But all at once there is a noise of machinery, and whistlings, and in the air, which was just now so pure, rise noxious columns of black smoke.

  • Soon there will scarcely be a river more dishonoured than this, by iron chimneys and thick, black smoke.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black above; black band; black color; black colour; black dots; black face; black fellows; black folk; black ground; black hellebore; black ivory; black lead; black market; black powder; black satin; black slaves; black snake; black troops; black veil; divine righteousness; just kind; left school; military glory; physical body; spoke with; your opinion