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• Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.From the entry weather
• They oiled it up with about five times more oil than was necessary.From the entry oil up
• Some of the bearings on this machine have oil cups. Make sure you keep it oiled up.From the entry oiled up
• They really oiled up that bike chain, didn't they?From the entry oil up
• Yesterday he helped us get the machinery oiled up, and then last night he went to the hotel bar and got oiled up himself.From the entry oiled up
• Things went well through the crisp toasts with oiled acciughe, blistered friggitello peppers from the garden.2015 July 1, Tamar Adler, “A Philosophy of Herbs”, in New York Times. From the entry friggitello
• Someone tore open the oiled silk covering and spread out the contents.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry tracing paper
• That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48. From the entry onboard
• In the museum, black patches punctuate white oiled surfaces, life smudging through the daunting unintentions to quiet us for good.2016, Richard Lyons, “Montreal Poem”, in Un Poco Loco: Poems, Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry unintention
• The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 269. From the entry brown
• For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle.2001, David Griffiths, The Weekend Warrior, Reedswain, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry match day
• In a toga, his hair and beard long-curled and oiled.1998, Martin H. Greenberg, Bruce D. Arthurs, editors, Olympus, Daw, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry exgod
• And she oiled everything, including her jigglies.1989, Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run, London: André Deutsch Limited, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry jigglies
• Hair brushed back, legs oiled, new dresses and pressed pleats, fresh pocket handkerchiefs and little handbags, all homesewn.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 149. From the entry homesewn
• Who are you?" Maniam's great eyes, his black skin oiled with sweat, Maniam's hands pudgily clutching his Dutch wife.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490. From the entry Dutch wife
• Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 127. From the entry Canton flannel
• For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.2003, Neelima Wig, Daybreak. From the entry foresong
• The "olivite rubber" is claimed to show a lower coefficient of friction on its wetted surface than on any oiled babbitted surface .1923, “Rubber Surfaced Bearings for Propellor Shafts of Small Craft”, in Rubber Journal, volume 66, page 7. From the entry olivite
• The leaves of the talipot or palmyra tree were rolled and boiled and oiled so as to prepare them for use in the writing of a manuscript.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 347. From the entry talipot
• The leather was a dark chestnut, gleaming like oiled wood; her leg, in its filmy Hanes pantyhose, was two shades paler, and her cashmere dress was marron glacé.2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, And Other Stories 2013, p. 188. From the entry marron glacé
• He walked over, although somewhat stumblesome in his drunkenness and effortlessly slid a cabinet of fine wine bottles over on smoothly oiled tracks revealing an ironclad safe.2010, Zach Lawrence, Reclaiming the Soul of Halbert Halburt - Book 2. From the entry stumblesome
• The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.1990, Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook. From the entry kazan

Meaning of oiled

1. adjective Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
2. adjective Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.

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How do you use oiled in a sentence?

Oiled is used as an adjective. For example: “I got well oiled last night.”

What is a short sentence with oiled?

“an oiled machine”

What does oiled mean?

Oiled means covered in, or supplied with, oil.