oozing
Example Sentences
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Videos posted to social media have shown apocalyptic scenes of a burning liquid oozing down the street, and the persistent smoke has prompted complaints of a “black rain” that leaves an oily residue.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Even budget dinners, the kind you’d normally rush through, take on the gravity of occasion when they emerge golden, oozing, crisp-edged.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
"The embalming chemical, when we injected it into different main arteries, kept oozing out," Dr Bhargava writes.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2025
I hate to use this word, but it was oozing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2025
Every step formed another word, thick like yellow pitch oozing from a broken pinon limb, words pressing inside his chest until it hurt: don’t leave me.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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