How to use oily in a sentence

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• There was an oily mist on the lens.From the entry mist
• “Blues are too oily,” he says, complaining about the absence of striped bass this year.2014, William Powers, New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry surf cast
• But the star attraction is the big, oily, fat delivery full of liquorice and brown-sugared coffee.2012, Jim Murray, Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2013, Northamptonshire: Dram Good Books Ltd, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry brown-sugared
• They had the smell of an oily rag to work on.2010, Gai Waterhouse, Gai In My Words, page 146. From the entry smell of an oily rag
• Touch screens are touched, so oily residues, or smudges, remain on the screen as a side effect.2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”…. From the entry smudge attack
• "We did it on the smell of an oily rag", says Danielle Kootman of Tourism Queensland.2009 May 1, Nick Bryant, “'Selling' Queensland with a dream job”, in BBC News. From the entry smell of an oily rag
• The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.1998, Tom Wolfe, chapter 15, in A Man in Full. From the entry abloom
• Scrubs made from grains are very exfoliating and absorbent and are good for oily and dirty skin.1998, Dina Falconi, Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Every Body, Woodstock, New York: Ceres Press…. From the entry exfoliating
• Ringent pools of gas kept erupting in oily eyes on the surface.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 107. From the entry ringent
• On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above her shock of oily black hair.2019, Hal Y. Zhang, Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother, Brooklyn, NY: Radix Media, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry shock
• Try to use regular olive oil here rather than extra-virgin, unless you don’t mind it smelling quite olive oily.2017, Lola Berry, Beauty Food, Sydney, N.S.W.: Plum, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry olive oily
• It should be sweet, vinegary, olive oily and piquant.2015, Sally Clarke, 30 Ingredients, London: Frances Lincoln, published 2016, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry olive oily
• They stopped only when they came to the first deep pools gleaming with oily reflections in the dwine of the daylight.2009, Sheri S. Tepper, Grass, page 327. From the entry dwine
• Oily beads of sweat bubbled his forehead.2007, Jason Blacker, Black Dog Bleeding, page 8. From the entry bubble
• A few weeks earlier this day had been an ugly thing to me, like the oily sand beneath my feet.1995, Ray Dabrowski, editor, Images of Mission: Seventh-day Adventists, People of Faith, Love, Courage, and Hope, Silver Spring, Md.…. From the entry coquina
• Gather shells, loll on the oily stones.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Jezebel’s”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry winding
• Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. From the entry wen
• The oily, milky, orange-juicy, coffee stains resist cleaning.1967 March 5, Margaret Dana, “Before You Buy: The Danger of Blankets That Burn”, in Des Moines Sunday Register, Des Moines, Ia., →ISSN…. From the entry orange-juicy
• They fed on oily carcasses washed down with rum, brawled away the evenings, and collapsed each night in drunken stupor.1961, Boys' Life, volume 51, number 11, page 13. From the entry doggery
• This bag is made of whang leather, an oily sort of leather like raw-hide, of which whang-strings are made.1916, Boys' Life, volume 5, number 12, page 22. From the entry whang leather
• Now draw the lacrimal caruncle at the medial corner of the eye, which produces whitish, oily fluid—it produces “sleep in the eye.”2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sleep
• He comes from an oily family.2008 September 28, Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz, “1600 Candles” (13:28 from the start), in American Dad!, season American Dad! season 5…. From the entry bacne
• Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico.2007 January 27, Vivien Schweitzer, “Young Lovers, a Vespa and a Frolic by Rossini”, in New York Times. From the entry buffo
• The dal tarka (£5) is made from whole yellow split peas, while sag aloo (£5) brings potatoes in a rich and oily spinach puree.2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, page 173. From the entry sag
• Since Italian dishes can be on the oily side, learn to "lemonize" by ordering several lemon wedges that can help emulsify excess oil.1999, Ann Louise Gittleman, Super Nutrition for Men: Using Nutrition to Protect, Heal and Supercharge Your Body. From the entry lemonize
• However, the concentrations of the diisopropylphenols were low, and their contribution would likely be subtle oily flavors at such levels (Table 6-3).1989, Jeong-Ok Kim Ha, Role of Volatile Branched-chain Fatty Acids in Characteristic Dairy, Meat, and Other Flavors, volume 2, page 222. From the entry diisopropylphenol
• Not a bird in sight until I almost stepped on a solitary bleary eyed jimmy woodser pigeon staring or drinking at an oily puddle.1968, Geoffrey Dutton, Maxwell Henley Harris, editors, The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters, page 248. From the entry Jimmy Woodser
• Like many shortish men he lifted his heels when he walked; he had a haunchy, oily swagger, and Scarsdale watched him go.1932, Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New. From the entry haunchy
• They are perpetually licking the oily secretions on the bodies and limbs of their ants, which they caress the while with their antennæ.1928, Auguste Henri Forel, The Social World of the Ants Compared with that of Man. From the entry strigilator
• Cooke, and Billy Moll, is suave, cool, a classy dresser, slick to the point of being oily, vacillating—and seemingly white; in brief, the “most uncertainest he-vamp in the land.”2015, John Bush Jones, “Typecasting—Southern Social and Ethnic, That Is”, in Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley’s Songs and the Creation of…. From the entry uncertainest
• In contrast, a water-repellent substance, for example, fluoric resin or Teflon, is extremely nonaffinitive with the oily oxime hydrochlorides and has a nature to repel it.1969, B. Albertson, Photochemical Processes, page 84. From the entry hydrochloride
• It is well known from chemistry that a fatty or oily element will not of itself unite with a watery, but must be united by means of saline copulants.1912, Emanuel Swedenborg, Alfred Acton, The Animal Kingdom, page 345. From the entry copulant

Meaning of oily

1. adjective Covered with or containing oil.
2. adjective Resembling oil.
3. adjective Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.

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Questions about oily in a sentence

How do you use oily in a sentence?

Oily is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “There was an oily mist on the lens.”

What is a short sentence with oily?

“oily swells; oily seas”

What does oily mean?

Oily means covered with or containing oil.