oily

Example Sentences

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They expect to begin reporting recovery totals Thursday morning, though those numbers will likely reflect an “oily water mixture,” not pure crude.

From Los Angeles Times

Walker agrees and likens it to the fact you can't remove an oily or dirty mark from clothes with just water, you need detergent too.

From BBC

When I hear the door close from their exit, I peel myself up from the warm table and marvel at the oily outline my body has left on the sheet.

From Los Angeles Times

It comes with two dressings, but I usually just do the sort of lemony kind of oily dressing.

From Los Angeles Times

Great British Chefs specified that tonka’s “most distinctive feature” is their “enormous potency — heady vanilla flavours, with oily clove aromas, and perfumed magnolia, sandalwood notes.”

From Salon