Example sentences for: oily

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

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

  • One of their weapons: infecting humans with an oily virus that incubates aliens.

  • 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.)

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


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