oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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The owner of a Peachtree City, Georgia, auto repair shop who paid a former employee’s final wages with 91,500 oil-soaked pennies has been ordered to pay nearly $40,000 more to nine of his workers.
From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2023
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
He'd return to the stove carrying the plate, now topped only with oil-soaked paper towels, laughing all the way.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2021
The only lingering signs of the spill were yellow-vested cleaning crews carrying rakes to scoop up tar balls and oil-soaked kelp from the sand.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
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
