ooze
Example Sentences
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"I was so red, my skin was so tight, then it would flake, then it would ooze, and then the cycle would begin again."
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
When under stress, the ropes ooze tar, which attracts bees.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025
A producer, her thumbprints evident in a track’s chic minimalism or ooze of West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
The name is inappropriate, for actually it is a rather turbid lake because of the soft black ooze that covers its shallow bottom.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing ooze
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