Example sentences for: greasy

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Some American place names have a unique resonance about them--places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming, or Greasy Creek, Arkansas, Lickskillet, Kentucky, or Scroungeout, Alabama.


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