lubrication

Example Sentences

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Ms. Münter, who turned down sponsorship from a company that was making lubrications from beef tallow, said that she looked forward to a day without liquid fuels entirely.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2016

Listed below are some of the most popular lubrications used in pre-modern times.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2015

Arnold's contradictions--if that's what they are--are an outgrowth of his two formative experiences: an iron-heel upbringing in Austria followed by all the lubrications of sun and fun and wealth that we still call California.

From Time Magazine Archive

They began as lubrications, evasions, to keep the wheels turning smoothly, and they ended as grains of sand in the bearings.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph

I figgered conspicyusly in many thrillin scenes in my tower from Montgomry to my humsted, and on sevril occasions I thought "the grate komick paper" wouldn't be inriched no more with my lubrications.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Ward, Artemus