oiling

Example Sentences

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I learned that oiling the blade prevents humidity from tarnishing the steel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

She did menial tasks like washing and oiling their hair and kept them close to her, emotionally and physically.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

If commoners' living standards slip—not relative to the elites, but relative to what they had before—they accept the overtures of the counter-elites and start oiling the axles of their tumbrels.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Blobs of oil washed ashore, oiling birds and shuttering the famed shoreline of Huntington Beach for a week.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

On those days I had the thrill of getting up even earlier, grooming Quince until she shone, plaiting her mane and tail, oiling her hooves, then traveling with her in the horse trailer.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall