smoky

adjective

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Recent Examples of smoky However, the creamy formula is easily blendable for a more smoky look. — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2025 The main concern for the North Texas region is fires, because if fires do spark, smoky wind can create long term health issues. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025 Today the old town seems to have retreated into a kind of sleepy Norman Rockwell innocence: the distant drone of a lawn mower, the call of kids playing catch, the smoky aromas of a barbecue. — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025 Her makeup included bold brows, a smoky eye and a soft, clean visage. — Julia Teti, WWD, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smoky
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  1. hoarse
  2. sooty
  3. husky
  4. gruff
  5. rough
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  • Typically lasting about a week, these include chronic cough, sneezing fits, runny nose, sinus pressure, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and hoarse (scratchy, raspy) voice.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Those concerns came to a head during Biden's debate against now-President Donald Trump in June, when Biden sounded hoarse and appeared to stumble through several answers.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • Black carbon is a dark, sooty byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
    — Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2019
  • By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
Definition of sooty
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  • Voicing the bag is an older woman with a husky Tuscan timbre, which carries the whole way through its lifecycle onscreen.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • My husky boy feet cemented into the concrete veranda.
    — Diane Seuss, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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  • In The Empire’s frame, residents of a coastal village in northern France — gruff, virile fisherman Jony (Brandon Vlieghe) and teenage tease Line (Lyna Khoudri) — reveal their oddball allegiance to extraterrestrial invaders.
    — Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
  • There’s a gruff and garrulous baseball pitching and hitting machine called Pop Fly (Brian Cox).
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of gruff
Adjective
  • Below are the stocks that came up in our search: While shares of Tesla , which has an RSI of around 22, advanced more than 5% midday Tuesday, on track to snap a three-day losing streak, the stock has had a rough time in recent weeks.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Sony has also had a bit of a rough time with the PS5 Pro, a device which has had at least some measure of technical problems where at times, its upgrades are failing to impress or even on occasion, making some games look worse.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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