oil-soaked
Example Sentences
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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
It was so crisp, golden, and oil-soaked, it seemed to glimmer.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022
The only lingering signs of the spill were yellow-vested cleaning crews carrying rakes to scoop up tar balls and oil-soaked kelp from the sand.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
You often could still smell the oakum oil-soaked hemp used to pack the joints before they poured the molten lead to make the joints watertight.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 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
