ooze

Example Sentences

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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

When under stress, the ropes ooze tar, which attracts bees.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025

But what you actually want — what your body, your cravings, your Fourth of July grill night wants — is ooze.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

A producer, her thumbprints evident in a track’s chic minimalism or ooze of West Coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

With that, he lowered himself into the ooze and, pushing heavy debris aside with every labored step, searched frantically for his mother and brother.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler