Sentence Examples

1. The flesh was inhuman, it was oiled in a thick coating of black tar.
2. Thick planks of oiled jarrah on stacks of red bricks formed a three-tiered bookcase and flanked the desk.
3. There were bottles and cases of queer-smelling stuffs, chemicals no doubt for experiments, and there were coils of fine copper wire and yanks and yanks of thin oiled silk.
4. I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
5. They were new and beautiful, and the color bearer habitually oiled the pole.
6. Then she took the shotgun outside and sat on a stump chair while she cleaned and oiled it, measured black powder down both barrels, rammed a wad and shot down each, and raised it to her shoulder.
7. He showed it again to the clerk, a svelte young man with oiled and perfumed black hair.
8. The oiled locks were cut to a medium length that brushed his ears and fell onto his forehead in a wave.
9. Under the arched and pillared entryway to the palace, Ovadia inspected a stately oak throne, oiled and buffed to a warm glow in the sunlight.
10. Parker had two more cleaned and oiled pistols next to the cash register in the checkout aisle.