oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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The owner of a Peachtree City, Georgia, auto repair shop who paid a former employee’s final wages with 91,500 oil-soaked pennies has been ordered to pay nearly $40,000 more to nine of his workers.
From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2023
It tasted odd, sweet with an oil-soaked texture, and by the time it had cooled enough for use in a s'more, it was unpleasantly chewy, like old gum.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
Images of oil-soaked seabirds and blackened shoreline were their introduction to the Alabama Gulf Coast.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021
As one writer noted at the time, “Many contend the environmental movement of recent years began on the oil-soaked beaches of Santa Barbara. Many contend that it died with the birth of the energy crisis.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021
An instant later he turned back again, gave Ranofer one of the fish, went on to the next storeroom, emerging an instant later with an oil-soaked torch.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
