Example sentences for: slimy

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

  • Gleet was originally described as a `slimy matter' (1400), sticky or greasy, characteristically as `phlegm collected in the stomach, especially of the hawk.

  • Many critics note that the enemies (an evil race of aliens) look like "characters from Cats reupholstered in slimy green Naugahyde" (Godfrey Cheshire, Daily Variety ). The most notable thing about the film is that the second trailer for the new Star Wars movie runs before it.

  • The Kiss has been called "slimy, repellent, meretricious, cynical" by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post , and things to that effect by sundry others.

  • A profile of Gingrich buddy Grover Norquist Jr. accuses him of selling out his conservative principles: He now lobbies for slimy dictators.

  • The cover package takes Congress to task, noting that congressional fund raising is as slimy as White House fund raising.


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