oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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Images of rescue teams scrubbing oil-soaked birds and shoveling gooey beach rocks became rallying points for environmentalists and others pushing for stronger controls on the oil industry.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2022
It was so crisp, golden, and oil-soaked, it seemed to glimmer.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022
On another beach, Castillo had picked up oil-soaked sand and acknowledged the impact of the spill.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2022
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
