Example sentences for: ointment

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

  • This week, the Star runs a two-page "Star Style Special" cover story ("Shania: I'm not beautiful") that claims to have all the dirt on country superstar Shania Twain's "secret flaws" and what she's doing "to make herself perfect," including using a skin ointment meant for softening cows' udders.

  • 1%) ointment (Alcon Ft Worth, TX) until reepithelisation was complete.

  • Schmeer is a Yiddish verb meaning `to apply an ointment or lubricant' and is commonly used as a slang term for `bribe,' no doubt because a bribe is seen as lubricating the wheels of bureaucracy.

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.


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