ooze

Example Sentences

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"My skin was hot, so inflamed and red. It began to crack and ooze, and the itch was bone deep. It consumed my whole body, and then it began to consume my whole life."

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

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

Despite her heavy woolen jacket, the cold still seemed to ooze into her bones.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper