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Example sentences for "oiled"

Lexicographically close words:
oido; oidores; oil; oilcloth; oile; oiler; oilfield; oilfields; oiling; oilman
  1. It is scarcely necessary to mention that several coloured glasses, as well as oiled or transparent papers, placed over each other, may be made to produce and exhibit every kind of intermixture at pleasure.

  2. Put the candy in oiled paper, place it in the hollow vegetable and fit the lid on the top, where it can be secured by using wooden toothpicks as tacks (Fig.

  3. The discovery at his bedside of his own clothes thoroughly cleaned and his boots well oiled added a touch of gratitude to his tender, compassionate, delightful thoughts of Elsie.

  4. I'll have your boots oiled and your clothes cleaned before you need 'em.

  5. There was also the brim of an oiled sou'wester' hat, a pipe, and a knife.

  6. We ain't got the new rugs, and the music box, and the books; or the old furniture rubbed and oiled yet.

  7. There were half a loaf of bread wrapped in its oiled paper, with two bananas discarded by Joe of the fruit stand.

  8. Wheel o' time oiled with cold cream and reversed with an icicle!

  9. As the flaming of things oiled is wont to move only on the outer surface, so was it there from the heels to the toes.

  10. The windows of stores and dwellings are of lattice work covered with oiled paper, glass being rarely used.

  11. The dwelling rooms, kitchens, and magazines had their windows and doors upon the yards, the former being long and low with small panes of glass, talc, or oiled paper.

  12. So the betel-nuts oiled themselves and went to invite the people in the different towns.

  13. Then they sent oiled betel-nuts to summon their relatives to the ceremony.

  14. They sent for the betel-nuts that were covered with gold, [9] and when they had oiled them they commanded them to go to all the towns and compel the people to come to the ceremony.

  15. Kadayadawan was very much interested and quickly combed his hair and oiled it, put on his striped coat [26] and belt, and went with the carabao to the orange tree.

  16. Chapman stepped on the accelerator and the car shot up the oiled way.

  17. Mark Stratford knew his car well, and coaxed it along over the well-oiled roads of Westchester at a speed to make anybody gasp.

  18. It was a pretty but rather somnolent place, just a string of white-painted, green-blinded houses and two or three stores along both sides of an oiled highway.

  19. Keep the outside of the generator clean by wiping it occasionally with an oiled rag.

  20. Then press the covers down firmly with a piece of oiled wood, as in Fig.

  21. But he did say it, immediately afterward, when with wet and soap-slippery fingers he tried to remove the horrible little envelope and crisp clinging oiled paper from the new blade.

  22. Finally he took them to a little shop on a side street, where each procured a monstrous knapsack of oiled canvas, having straps to be placed over the shoulders and an extra strap to come up over the front part of the head.

  23. Drop from spoon on oiled pan and bake in hot oven.

  24. A poultice thus made, will act as a local tepid bath to the inflamed part; and the oiled silk preventing evaporation, it will be found, when taken off, as moist as the first moment that it was put on.

  25. Apply it just warm enough to be borne, and cover it well with oiled silk.

  26. Moore recommends covering the face with a light mask of lint and oiled silk, having holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth.

  27. To prevent their drying too rapidly a little glycerine may be added to the water and the lint covered with gutta-percha tissue or oiled silk.

  28. And he could conclude only that there were no warm human men at the other end, only mere cogs, well oiled and running beautifully in the machine.

  29. He opened the kit bag and oiled his wheel, putting graphite on the chain and adjusting the bearings.

  30. Their peace-loving neighbors need to keep their weapons well oiled and polished, and indulge in no hallucinations of a millenium upon this wicked earth.

  31. The door of the sleeping-den was oiled and overhauled and put in thorough working order, so that if the female should dash into it for safety, a keeper could instantly slide the barrier and shut her in.

  32. He looked to his fuses and saw that they were wrapped in oiled paper, then placed them in his hat.

  33. Just as he was about to strike it he heard the swish of oiled clothes passing, and waited for some time.

  34. He took down his Winchester, oiled and cleaned it, then buckled on a belt of cartridges.

  35. The engineer opened it to admit what appeared to his astonished eyes to be a Krupp cannon propelled by a man in yellow-oiled clothes and white cotton mask.

  36. Remove from the fire, add the chocolate and nuts and beat until the chocolate is melted; beat in the vanilla and turn into a biscuit pan, nicely oiled or buttered, to make a sheet three-fourths an inch thick.

  37. Cut with a tiny heart-shaped cake cutter (any other small cake cutter will do), and place on pans oiled just enough to prevent sticking.

  38. When the candy is through foaming, turn it onto a warm and well-oiled marble or platter.

  39. A colonist wrote back to England to a friend who was soon to follow, "Bring oiled paper for your windows.

  40. The windows of the first houses had oiled paper to admit light.

  41. Oiled paper was used until this century in pioneer houses for windows wherever it was difficult to transport glass.

  42. The earliest meeting-houses had oiled paper in the windows, and when glass came it was not set with putty, but was nailed in.

  43. This is effected by spontaneous heat, the dry oiled skins being heaped in boxes and covered.

  44. The dyeing and finishing are somewhat similar to that of coloured boot upper leather, except that the leather is slightly oiled on the grain instead of being fat-liquored.

  45. The leather is liberally oiled with a brush or swab on the grain side and immediately hung up in the drying shed, where it is left until it reaches what is technically known as a "sammed" condition (i.

  46. They are then re-stocked, taken into the shed to samm, re-oiled in the vat, and stocked again.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oiled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afflicted; bent; cockeyed; drunk; elevated; fried; fuddled; greasy; high; illuminated; intoxicated; lit; loaded; oily; organized; pickled; pissed; plastered; polluted; potted; raddled; slick; slippery; smashed; soaked; soused; stewed; tanked; tight; tipsy


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    oiled paper; oiled silk