Example sentences for: greasy

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

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

  • Eszterhas is the Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd, the eminence greasy of Hollywood.

  • He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."

  • Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.

  • He lowered the greasy wrench from his hand, looked at me, and confessed, "I couldn't bear the thought of somebody else getting to work on these."


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