Example sentences for: greasy

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

  • I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.

  • 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?"

  • 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.

  • Before finding his way into journalism, Royko already had experience "setting bowling pins, working on a landscape crew, in a greasy machine shop, and in a lamp factory and pushing carts around a department store," as he noted in 1990.

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


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