oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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It tasted odd, sweet with an oil-soaked texture, and by the time it had cooled enough for use in a s'more, it was unpleasantly chewy, like old gum.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
Images of oil-soaked seabirds and blackened shoreline were their introduction to the Alabama Gulf Coast.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021
You often could still smell the oakum oil-soaked hemp used to pack the joints before they poured the molten lead to make the joints watertight.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2021
The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine disaster killed an estimated 168 miners on June 8, 1917, when a cable fell down a shaft, hitting obstacles that stripped its covering and exposed oil-soaked insulation.
From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2017
An instant later he turned back again, gave Ranofer one of the fish, went on to the next storeroom, emerging an instant later with an oil-soaked torch.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
