ooze

Example Sentences

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“Slop oozes into everything. The original sense of the word, in the 1700s, was ‘soft mud.’

From Salon

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

From the poignant title track to the oozing, satirical groove of “Have a Cigar,” the album holds its rightful place as one of the decade’s enduring masterworks.

From Salon

I try to channel my father and look as tough as I can, but it’s hard to focus with the moisture from the wooden beams oozing into my socks.

From Literature

Every actor oozed Main Character Energy, but the plot fully revolved around Silverstone’s Cher, the effervescent queen bee of Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times