Example sentences for: greased

How can you use “greased” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He was fluent in all media: His columns were stylish and eloquent--they were greased up with quotes from dead Englishmen--and they made readers feel smarter.

  • Fixing someone's wagon is teaching them a lesson, and pipe up about grievances: the squeaky wheel gets the grease , because a wagon's hubs rotate directly on the axletrees and squeak if they are not greased constantly.

  • Times newsroom on Wednesday, and I like to imagine Willes cowering in his office seriously stroking his greased mustaches à la Snidely Whiplash.

  • In the United States, too, Murdoch has greased the wheels of capitalism.

  • Indian troops were trained to bite the cartridges before loading their rifles, but some were greased with animal fat and the Indians felt they were ingesting either fat from the cow, sacred to the Hindus, or lard from the pig, abomination to the Muslims.


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