Words similar to oily

Example sentences for: oily

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

One of their weapons: infecting humans with an oily virus that incubates aliens.
(In the latter, his deep voice sounded great with a German accent, at once oily and metallic.)
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.
When he died of a stroke in 1992 (too early to see his adored Frank Gifford dragged from an athletic state of grace into the oily tabloid muck), he left behind no significant paper trail other than the memoirs that made his name.
(Watch carefully and you can actually see him exuding contempt, like the oily haze that rises off airplane engines on a hot day.)