Example sentences for: greasy

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

  • Just one time (this was years before I was a second-tier public radio personality) I went to see his show at the Tech College, caught him out in the corridor, and lied to him about how much I liked his show (really, he talks so slow it makes me nervous, plus all that lip noise indicating introspection being released into the atmosphere) and, silly boy, launched into how I was doing a live daily radio show from a greasy spoon and all, and he looked at me and said, "Do you know where the bathroom is?"

  • Gleet was originally described as a `slimy matter' (1400), sticky or greasy, characteristically as `phlegm collected in the stomach, especially of the hawk.

  • It is there in Graham Greene's pre-WWII novel Stamboul Train , with its picture of the greasy currant merchant.

  • And the phrase conjured up a specific image: the greasy, pocket-protected teen in thick, horn-rimmed glasses.

  • In fact, you can even prop it up and read no-handed if you're eating something greasy or shaving.


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