lubricate

Example Sentences

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One key defense against this process: a network of de-watering wells, which pump out the water that lubricates the soil’s clay layers.

From Los Angeles Times

Detainees were strapped into a chair and a lubricated tube was stuffed down their nose so a nurse could pour down two cans of a protein drink, according to military records.

From Washington Post

How much of that ease is lubricated with booze?

From Salon

The whole affair has turned into a lesson in how to undermine the principles of financial dealmaking that have lubricated commerce for decades.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, at 75, she says she has a driving need for physical activity: “It helps keeps the joints lubricated.”

From Seattle Times