Example sentences for: oily

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  • The health benefits or hazards associated with fish consumption will require added attention to origin of fish - marine or fresh water - given the reported differences in stores of polyunsaturated fatty acids and N-3 fatty acid between the two types of fish [ 44 45 46 47 ] . Levels of N-3 fatty acids vary by fish species, oil content of fish, sex and age of fish, and factors exogenous to fish such as water temperature [ 47 48 ] . Oily fish from cold waters (whether marine or fresh bodies of water) are reported to have higher levels of N-3 fatty acids in comparison to fish from warmer bodies [ 45 47 ] . The ratio of N-3 to N-6 fatty acids has recently been suggested as being associated with gestation and birth weight [ 49 ] and this ratio is approximately four-times greater in marine fish in comparison to fresh water fish [ 45 ] . Type and species-specific fish consumption will remain important considerations in assessing exposure scenarios based on fish consumption.

  • The eggs will seem shapeless and gummy or oily and filmed with a whitish glaze.

  • As to mutton bird, tastes vary: it may have required as W.H. Leigh wrote in 1839 a desperate stomach to attack such an oily mass, but Ralph Clarke in 1790 lovingly packed a box for his beloved woman, Containing a Mount Pit Bird, A Mutton Bird.

  • (Watch carefully and you can actually see him exuding contempt, like the oily haze that rises off airplane engines on a hot day.)

  • In a phone interview Thursday night, Brock was not as oily as Chatterbox had hoped he'd be.


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