greasy

Example Sentences

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"It's a dying trade," 61-year-old Maria Wade said of her job as a "greasy mender" at Alex Begg, a semi-rural mill that has been based in Ayr in southwest Scotland for more than a century.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Gary Oldman is having a blast as Jackson Lamb, the greasy, rumpled, sharp-tongued and strategically flatulent keeper of a den of MI5 misfits.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Pieces of fried chicken from one of KFC’s buckets, McElroy said, “would be such a greasy mess.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

"A light, fresh, easy-to-digest product with a few choice toppings, not the massively greasy, heavy and overloaded pizzas of the past. That, I think, is what's caused Pizza Hut's downfall," she says.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Upon occasion, the patrons of the stall would offer her wine or ale or great, greasy sausages, and always she would decline.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman