grease
Example Sentences
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“It was very much a ‘squeaky wheel gets the grease’” approach, said Gross.
London has stables of lawyers and accountants experienced at disguising sources of wealth and who help clients obtain visas that grease the wheels of business.
In the next picture the oak tree outside my aunt’s boardinghouse is captured, in grease pencil, at change of season, the leaves all reds and golds.
From Literature
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Patience here prevents grease pockets and keeps the texture even.
From Salon
But there was no evidence of a skull fracture or brain damage typically seen in such cases or grease from a vehicle.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.