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How to use oil in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Oil means liquid fat. Example: “Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.”

Examples of oil by meaning

nounPetroleum.

  • Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
  • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2020

nounAn oil painting.

  • Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist, page 89

nounOil paint.

  • I prefer to paint in oil

verbTo lubricate with oil.

  • Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion.1955 February, E. J. Tyler and J. Quanjer, “The Steam Locomotive in Holland 1919-1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 131
  • He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

verbTo say in an unctuous manner.

  • "Do you need a drink?" oils Robert Ryan to the disinterested Stanwyck in Clash By Night; "Let's say that's what I need," she sneers back.1984 December 22, Michael Bronski, “Women Act Out on Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 10

More sentences with oil

  • I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.From the entry worst
  • It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.From the entry learn
  • Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.From the entry cream
  • There's no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss.From the entry boss
  • An oil refinery has an impressively vast number and variety of valves.From the entry valve
  • Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.From the entry additive
  • He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.From the entry ruin
  • My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.From the entry ping
  • The engine runs better now that I've given it some oil.From the entry better
  • This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.From the entry milkshake
  • Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?From the entry brine
  • Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.From the entry medium
  • Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.From the entry carrier
  • The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.From the entry drop
  • He used to be gone a lot of the time, off working on an oil rig.From the entry off
  • To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.From the entry blend
  • Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.From the entry material
  • A secure supply of crude oil is crucial for any modern nation, let alone a superpower.From the entry crucial
  • The car's instrumentation included fuel, temperature, voltimeter and oil pressure gauges, along with a speedometer and tachometer.From the entry instrumentation
  • Q: What about fuel oil? A: We plan to stock up before November.From the entry stock up
  • The company was granted the exclusive right to exploit the oil resources of the province.From the entry exclusive right
  • The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.From the entry quench
  • Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.From the entry role
  • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.From the entry drizzle
  • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.From the entry drizzle
  • I'm not a big fan of watercolour; I much prefer oil painting.From the entry watercolour
  • The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge.From the entry make someone's teeth itch
  • It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.From the entry bleeding
  • Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.From the entry skillet
  • Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.From the entry slick
  • The oil slick has now spread to cover the entire bay, critically endangering the sea life.From the entry slick
  • She was burning the midnight oil to finish her part of the project.From the entry burn the midnight oil
  • Mayonnaise is an emulsion where egg is used to keep oil and water mixed.From the entry emulsion

Meaning of oil

  1. noun Liquid fat.
  2. noun Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  3. noun Petroleum.

Full definition of oil

Questions about oil in a sentence

How do you use oil in a sentence?
Oil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.”
What is a short sentence with oil?
“I prefer to paint in oil”
What does oil mean?
Oil means liquid fat.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oil (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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