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"Oily" in a Sentence (22 examples)
My clothes have an oily smell because I ate at an okonomiyaki place.
She has oily skin.
Tom has oily skin.
I didn't eat all the fries because they were too oily.
Tom hid the gun under a bunch of oily rags in his garage.
I hate when my hands get too oily and messy.
These anchovies are so oily tasting.
I have oily skin.
Titan is so cold that water exists as rock-hard ice, and oily methane falls from the sky and trickles into the seas.
This doughnut is super oily.
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oily machinery; oily rags; oily fish; oily cooking
His clothes were apt to look oily and smell of eating-houses.
[…] overdressed young men of enigmatic appearance, with oily thick hair, shifty eyes, and hands covered with cheap rings, swaggered about smoking cigarettes and talking in loud, ostentatious voices.
Dyes listed with the word “lake” indicate the dye is a fat-soluble version, meaning it can dissolve in oily foods or drinks.
oily swells; oily seas
There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
Near-synonyms: slick, buttery; smarmy
[…] for I want that glib and oyly Art, To ſpeake and purpoſe not, ſince what I well entend Ile do’t before I ſpeake, […]
Mr. Carker the Manager, sly of manner, sharp of tooth, soft of foot, watchful of eye, oily of tongue, cruel of heart, nice of habit, sat with a dainty stedfastness and patience at his work, as if he were waiting at a mouse’s hole.
‘He had an inflexible will beneath all that oily kindness which passed for spiritual […]’
Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls).
But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
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