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

Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

This meant, however, that only four monks guarded the tomb of St. Nicholas, down in the city, carrying on their ancient duties, filling decorative glass vials with the ooze that drizzled from his corpse.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

Meanwhile, Hope managed to ooze class and display exquisite timing while maintaining a strike-rate of 225, with England's relatively inexperienced bowling attack struggling for answers in the absence of Jofra Archer and Adil Rashid.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

But she slipped off and sank into the swirling flood of ooze.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis