charcoal in a sentence
Example sentences for charcoal
Prehistoric people first made patterns and images by rubbing chunks of charcoal and iron oxide onto cave walls.
The glossy argyle of bronze and charcoal lies unscathed.
Thais occasionally come too, making the short trip from their border to see the charcoal and ash.
Overhead the plumes merge to form a charcoal cloud that blocks out the sun.
The trees used-up for charcoal and concrete and steel imported.
Some scientists on these digs removed artifacts, such as pottery, but threw away charcoal and animal bones.
The lady was sketching in charcoal the head of her future husband, although she wore no widow's veil.
For example, local game scout teams are protecting wildlife habitat by stopping the cutting of trees for charcoal production.
Handpicked loose teas and a sampling of house-made green-tea granola are brought out in charcoal-colored porcelain.
The plasma is then pushed through a charcoal column to extract the toxic chemicals.
Instead of charcoal, their grill had little lava rocks on the bottom.
It was a summer in which only have-nots wanted a cigarette or a vodka-and-tonic or a charcoal-broiled steak.
Charcoal burning is forbidden for the sake of the environment.
For instance, wheat grains and pieces of charcoal are often used to date pottery shards found in the same spot.
For some protection they smeared themselves with a mixture of animal fat, charcoal, and ocher.
Put several pieces of activated charcoal on a paper towel and set it in the middle of the room.
Place the tube in the pile of firewood or charcoal, and light it.
In the sun its rocks become charcoal-colored briquettes in a hibachi.
Check fireplaces before you use them to make sure the flue is unobstructed, and don't use charcoal burners indoors.
Picnic tables and sheltered charcoal grills are located outside each cabin.
For weeks, the sky had been a chalky gray that darkened to charcoal in the afternoon.
He learned to bank his pits, to stack them with charcoal and hickory so that the temperature held steady through the night.
Nearby, a charcoal-fired wok sizzles, spewing spicy smoke into the hot breeze.
As the sun set the palette of colors shifted to a cool series of charcoal and blues.
Another team built a charcoal extruder that creates charcoal briquettes from empty sugar cane stalks.
The block is so arranged that it smoulders slowly and is not finally reduced to charcoal till the expiry of a year.
Instead of coals, you use wood and fire it up and burn it down to charcoal before cooking.
Color is another: paddy rice is charcoal-gray, true wild rice a mottled beige-brown.
There won't be a single collar-and-tie in a sea of charcoal roll-neck sweaters.
They farm the land, growing subsistence crops, and collect charcoal remains from the fire pits of their neighbors.
Humans have shown a propensity for finding ever denser sources of energy, from wood to charcoal to coal to oil to uranium.
The explosive he described was composed of six parts of saltpetre to five parts of charcoal and five parts of sulphur.
But war, poaching, and the charcoal trade is threatening their existence.
The process involves heating a block of wood until turns into charcoal, then spraying it with calcium.
Maybe you should mix in some actuated charcoal to absorb a tiny bit of the smell.
Now the dreams are of a wilder hue: charcoal-gray peaks, white-water kayak runs, and the wildflower-strewed paths of history.
Get a feel for how long it takes for the charcoal to settle into a cooking bed, and how much heat it will throw off.
Pride, as much as wares, is on exhibit by every hawker and charcoal griller under the market's sweep of corrugated tin.
The researchers did radiocarbon dating on five charcoal samples from deposits found in three layers of the site.
Sometimes he paints himself with charcoal until the rain comes to wash away his blackness.
Aside from a charcoal or gas grill, no fancy equipment is required.
With charcoal gray cloth and stamped red leaf accents, it's a stunner.
The charcoal worked wonders on the aging process of his whiskey, and bourbon was born-to the delight of generations that followed.
She was dressed in a charcoal-gray suit, with a single strand of pearls and a gold pin.
The faint scent of charcoal from last night's hearth rides on the air.
If the hawker sold a grilled or hot dish, one of the boxes sometimes bore a heavy charcoal stove.
Keep the bottom of your fireplace or charcoal grill from becoming encrusted with soot.
Rubber-tappers, loggers, miners and charcoal-burners came too.
The crisp joy in a charcoal tailored wool jacket fits together with the same satisfaction of a well-structured rocket engine.
The surface looks bright, but the dust is charcoal gray.
In addition, commercial charcoal makers also harvest oak trees.
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