ooze

Example Sentences

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"My skin was hot, so inflamed and red. It began to crack and ooze, and the itch was bone deep. It consumed my whole body, and then it began to consume my whole life."

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

But nearly two years later, water started to ooze from a different well in the same area, a sign that bottling up the geyser likely repressurized the subsurface and triggered the new outburst, scientists said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

This meant, however, that only four monks guarded the tomb of St. Nicholas, down in the city, carrying on their ancient duties, filling decorative glass vials with the ooze that drizzled from his corpse.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

From the melodic Sicilian ghosts of “The Godfather” by composer Nino Rota to the aching Eastern European love theme in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Wojciech Kilar, his stories ooze with musical expression.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

I dashed into the shop, knocking over rows of T-shirts, jumping over tables foil of glow-in-the-dark planets and space ooze.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan