oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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In the United States, most people think of those oil-soaked foods as latkes, or potato pancakes, and jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022
Images of rescue teams scrubbing oil-soaked birds and shoveling gooey beach rocks became rallying points for environmentalists and others pushing for stronger controls on the oil industry.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022
On another beach, Castillo had picked up oil-soaked sand and acknowledged the impact of the spill.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
Until now, the story of the worst local oil spill in decades has been told by gut-wrenching images oil-soaked birds, dying fish and fouled wetlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
