oiled

Example Sentences

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In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

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 • May 2, 2025

Exterior walls, built from Douglas fir, were freshly oiled and flammable.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

If using a ready made crust with two in a pack, roll out the second one, use a cookie cutter to make rounds to place in an oiled muffin pan for mini pies.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

Ranofer snatched the stones that protected his hands and began pouring the metal into the mold he had oiled to receive it.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw