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How to use oily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word oily? Here are some examples.

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The skin could have an oily substance like tallow, egg yolk or dubbin, which is a mixture of fish oil and tallow.
Fish is most beneficial for the body when it comes in an oily form such as mackerel, trout or salmon.
Canned salmon, sardines, mackerel, trout and pilchards count as oily fish, as they do when fresh.
Vitamin D is found in egg yolk, butter and oily fish such as salmon, trout, mackerel, herring and sardine.
Her dad, Dave James, was an engine tuner and she'd seen enough oily chains and carburettors at her home in Stockport to last her a lifetime.
Some savoury recipes also use rhubarb, as its tanginess makes it an ideal accompaniment for fatty meats or oily fish.
The steam-baked ada can satisfy those who are averse to sugar and oily items.
The healthy fats found in oily fish such as salmon, trout, mackerel, herring and sardines appear to help raise HDL levels.
Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes.
It's 6am and Basra is burning, black clouds of oily smoke drifting over the city to the east, the sound of gunfire rolling across the canal.
His hobby was collecting Japanese comic books, also known as manga, and he always seemed to have oily hair.
The tiny knots of the branch dug into his neck as Merlin sought to find a purchase with his fingers, scrabbling against the oily branch.
Most prawns taste of little more than frozen water, while crudely smoked or marinated oily fish can be revolting.
Wearing hats for too long makes hair oily and produces scurf while the air conditioning makes the hair lose moisture.
A strong thermocline yields an oily mixing effect in the water and it is getting on for 45m before it clears enough to take photographs.
Hair thickener was an oily blue liquid, a bit like petrol, and came in a clear plastic bottle that reminded me of a glue container.
The oily sebum rises up through the hair follicle, providing lubrication for your skin and hair.
It consists of introducing medicated oily substances into the colon to be retained and absorbed by the whole body.
The clicks are beamed forward, with the oily melon serving as an acoustic lens and the bony forehead as a reflector.
Then we excavated the oily marrow with tiny wooden forks, dabbing little bits of it on slices of challah toast.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.
He had oily black hair, and smiled with gold-filled teeth before one came to the real point of a joke.
The whaler drawn by oily lure followed the bowhead east and north from Bering Sea.
The Germans were barraging the crest of the hill, with their universal-shell bursting high with black oily clouds.
The flies seem an Egyptian plague, and get mortised into the oily butter, which holds them like birdlime.
In the East Indies the candleberry, which contains oily seeds, has been burned for light by the natives.
Hard water is of no use as a cleanser, until all the lime has been removed by uniting with the oily acid of the soap.
When the hair is excessively oily or the scalp unusually crowded with dandruff, the weekly shampoo should not be neglected.
When the hair is very oily a dessertspoonful of ammonia and a pinch of borax should be added to two quarts of warm water.
She aimed it at her burrito's exposed guts and misted them with a fine red oily spray.
The grain is replaced by a dense fungoid tissue largely charged with an oily fluid.
For a rich mild red colour, rectified spirits of naphtha, dyed with camwood dust, or an oily decoction of alkanet-root.
The oily part rose to the top, making it look like a savory black broth, which smelled much like balm or other herb tea.
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