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Examples

  • She brushed a strand of golden hair from her cheek and tucked it behind her ear, her soot-streaked fingers leaving a smudge.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

  • He really looked very peculiar with his soot-streaked face.

    An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010

  • She crossed to the washstand and Angus found himself watching the sway of her hips beneath her soot-streaked gown.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

  • The World Bank - which receives £400m of your taxes every year - is promoting this soot-streaked vision across the planet.

    Johann Hari: It Is Five Minutes To Environmental Midnight. We Need To Act - Urgently 2009

  • It would never occur to me that she was once a soot-streaked prisoner of the gutter, condemned by every syllable she uttered.

    An Immovable Feast Douglas McGrath 2008

  • Spidery glimmers of liquid crystal crawled across the soot-streaked floor.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • He smiled and paused at the entrance to one of the soot-streaked blocks of ramshackle flats.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • It was the odor of smoke and singed hair, and it came from the massive, soot-streaked man lying in the bed.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

  • It was the odor of smoke and singed hair, and it came from the massive, soot-streaked man lying in the bed.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

  • It was the odor of smoke and singed hair, and it came from the massive, soot-streaked man lying in the bed.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

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