oiled

Example Sentences

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After each use, they were to be cleaned, oiled if necessary, and put away in their proper place — and each tool had only one proper place.

From Literature

It’s stunning, oiled to a soft gleam, but too advanced for me.

From Literature

When I finally nailed a roast chicken — buttered and oiled, stuffed with lemon wedges and hunks of onion and fennel — I felt like a goddess.

From Salon

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

From BBC

Even though you may wet it during some part of the precooking process — like dipping it in egg before dredging it in flour — it should be dry or only lightly oiled before cooking.

From Salon