Charcoal
in sentence
67 examples of Charcoal in a sentence
Two best friends, the more straight-laced "geek" Allison Gellar (Adrianna Eder) and goth vegetarian Sarah Hannigan (Ciara Richards) want to do "something cool" so they go visit a cemetery to do some
charcoal
tracings of tombstones.
While the minority of Africans connected to national grids – most of whom are wealthy – benefit from cheap, heavily subsidized electricity delivered through state utilities, the unconnected majority pays about $10 per kilowatt-hour of energy delivered in the form of charcoal, batteries, candles, and kerosene.
For example, helping the world’s poorest people shift away from traditional fuels such as firewood, charcoal, and animal dung would go a long way toward reducing deaths and illnesses from air pollution, especially among women and children.
As for the Somali people, al-Shabaab treats them like cannon fodder, and uses their country as a platform for jihad and as a base for a small financial empire based on extortion and environmentally rapacious
charcoal
exports.
Almost four in five Africans rely for cooking on solid biomass, mainly wood and
charcoal.
There are also industrial factories spewing smoke,
charcoal
braziers on the sidewalks keeping pavement dwellers warm, coal stoves used by roadside chaiwallahs (tea-sellers), and even the agricultural stubble burned by farmers in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana.
Half of the world’s population uses solid fuel, such as wood, charcoal, or dung, for cooking.
The group’s profits from illicit
charcoal
(and possibly ivory) exported from Kismayo have grown since Kenya took control.
During the 20th century, nearly half the argan forest disappeared due to demand for high quality
charcoal
and conversion of land to agriculture.
Globally, 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity, and 2.7 billion people, mostly women, rely on wood, charcoal, and dung for cooking.
The challenge is immense: despite modern technologies, one person in five lacks access to electricity, and twice that number, three billion people, rely on wood, coal, charcoal, or animal waste for cooking and heating.
In my home country, Sierra Leone (one of the five most vulnerable countries to climate change), less than 20% of the population has electricity, while over 90% rely on
charcoal
and firewood for cooking.
Many support local schools and health clinics and employ local people – who might otherwise work in
charcoal
production and bushmeat hunting – in nature-based jobs.
In northern Tanzania, Hadza hunter-gatherers use the money to hire rangers to stop
charcoal
poachers, and to pay medical bills or school fees.
Now that she was black, her face powdered with fine charcoal, she seemed to him singularly charming.
Without ceasing, the rumbling of the wheels shook the metal floor; while from the coal thus put in motion there arose a fine
charcoal
powder which powdered black the soil, the walls, even the joists of the steeple.
The clothes were burnt, the body was nothing but black charcoal, calcined and unrecognizable.
How can I make gunpowder on my ship when I have no saltpeter, sulfur, or charcoal?"
"Half an ounce of resin and turpentine, four ounces of yellow wax, and three half ounces of animal charcoal, if you please, to clean the varnished leather of my togs."
Everywhere Julien found inscribed in charcoal, on the walls of the passages, sentences like the following: 'What are sixty years of trial, set in the balance with an eternity of bliss or an eternity of boiling oil in hell!'
'I take back my word,' cried Julien, springing to his feet; 'I shall not appeal from the sentence of death, if by poison, knife, pistol,
charcoal
or any other means whatsoever, you seek to put an end to, or to endanger your life.'Madame de Renal's expression altered suddenly; the warmest affection gave place to a profound abstraction.
He carefully trailed the
charcoal
over the canvas with short, sorry strokes, his rigid, cold drawing recalling in a grotesque fashion that of the primitive masters.
He placed a white canvas on his easel; and, then, with a bit of charcoal, sketched out a face in a few lines.
He had first of all proceeded rapidly with his sketches; he now took pains to pass the stick of
charcoal
slowly over the canvas.
This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour.
I have no doubt that, girl-like, to enhance her own value and increase the ardour of Mr. Snodgrass, she has represented this matter in very glowing colours, and that they have both arrived at the conclusion that they are a terribly- persecuted pair of unfortunates, and have no resource but clandestine matrimony, or
charcoal.
At the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire.
There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised
charcoal.
Then new layers of bruised pyrites were arranged so as to form an immense heap, the exterior of which was covered with earth and grass, several air-holes being left, as if it was a stack of wood which was to be carbonized to make
charcoal.
When Rowena perceived the Knight Templar's eyes bent on her with an ardour, that, compared with the dark caverns under which they moved, gave them the effect of lighted charcoal, she drew with dignity the veil around her face, as an intimation that the determined freedom of his glance was disagreeable.
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