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Example sentences for "ooze"

Lexicographically close words:
oosphere; oost; oot; oother; ootside; oozed; oozes; oozing; oozy
  1. And the political strivings of these had no organic nexus with the doctrine which emanated from the nethermost depths in which vengeful pariahs, outlaws, and benighted nihilists were floundering before suffocating in the ooze of anarchism.

  2. It might commove Europe and bespatter it with blood, but that would not hinder it from plunging itself into nothingness in the abysmal ooze of definite dissolution.

  3. I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.

  4. Little clastic debris is found, either because the ooze accumulated in deep water or plants near the shore filtered out the debris.

  5. Decay was reduced effectively in the ooze because of either an antibiotic in the ooze which inhibited bacteria of decay or the ooze accumulated in waters where anaerobic conditions prevented decay.

  6. With time and the weight of overlying sediments, the ooze was compacted and most of its water driven off.

  7. Oil shale probably originated as an organic ooze on the bottom of the Fossil Lake.

  8. This ooze was composed of the remains of phytoplankton, blue-green algae, zooplankton, bacteria, and some pollen and spores.

  9. Continuing pressure from compaction and heat generated by burial and compaction caused a variety of complex chemical reactions which converted the ooze into a petroleum product called kerogen.

  10. Bacteria grew on the lake bottom and in the water and helped to contribute to the organic ooze that built up on the bottom.

  11. It is a monotonous walk at this season; the rich marsh vegetation slumbers in the ooze underground, waiting for a breath of summer.

  12. The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he had now reached.

  13. One fancied that one had touched the sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's finger nails.

  14. My fist sank through the shell; a cold, sticky ooze spurted out.

  15. The grisly smashed face was white with ooze and pulp where my fist had gone in.

  16. Be careful, Mr. Ferrars, there is a very deep place just below this shelf, and the water showed there before anywhere else; it seemed to ooze up from the bottom.

  17. When the two were found, lying under the ooze and scum behind one of the rotting gates, Riderhood's hold had relaxed, probably in falling, and his eyes were staring upward.

  18. After riding about half a mile he came to the mouth of a rugged, unfrequented country road, the bed of which was moist from the ooze of rills on one of its banks.

  19. The rocks underneath his feet, some round, some angular, some flat, were slippery with the ooze of the earth fissures above and the refluent foam of the cascade.

  20. As the water shallows over well known bars, and scarcely has the water shoaled enough to permit the birds to alight without swimming, than as many sandpipers as can collect on the place eagerly alight and begin probing the ooze for food.

  21. A bit of marsh above the pond and a short stretch of ooze along the outlet below remained open, and in this small area of one-fourth of an acre were 25 to 30 snipe.

  22. Boots and other articles slithered back and forth on the deck in a slimy ooze of oil fuel and sea water, and more than once I had to jump out and rescue my clothes from the mess.

  23. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.

  24. Now, I'd be nervous if I had a sleepin' bag like yours, because it's just the place for a rattler to ooze into.

  25. You'll have to ooze round some to keep up with that hound.

  26. We'll ooze over that way, as it's goin' toward the Siwash.

  27. Under this tree we placed all our belongings, and then, as Frank so felicitously expressed it, we were free to "ooze round an' see things.

  28. Thou dost; and think’st it much to tread the ooze Of the salt deep, To run upon the sharp wind of the north, To do me business in the veins o’ the earth 255 When it is baked with frost.

  29. At daybreak he would feed near the banks, plunging down deep into the mud and ooze at the bottom, searching among the snake-like lily roots and water weeds for fresh clams, crawfish and in the shallows for shoals of little silvery minnows.

  30. Next to the Radiolarian ooze proper the Globigerina ooze is the deposit which is richest in the remains of Radiolaria.

  31. Pure Radiolarian ooze was found by the Challenger eastwards in the Central Pacific (over a wide area between lat.

  32. The ooze from the latter station, situated almost on the equator (lat.

  33. True Globigerina ooze consists for the most part of the accumulated calcareous shells of pelagic Foraminifera, principally Globigerina and Orbulina, but also Hastigerina, Pulvinulina, &c.

  34. Pure Radiolarian ooze was first described by Dr.

  35. The remarkably pure Radiolarian ooze of Zanzibar, discovered by Ehrenberg in 1859, was the earliest known recent example of that deposit.

  36. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

  37. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

  38. Defn: Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp.

  39. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc.

  40. A liquid mineral pitch, so called because it is seen to ooze like oil out of the rock.

  41. Still farther out, the finest mud and ooze are alone met with.

  42. Mineral pitch, of which the tar-like substance which is often seen to ooze out of the Newcastle coal when on the fire, and which makes it cake, is a good example.

  43. Fluid bitumen is seen to ooze from the bottom of the sea, on both sides of the island of Trinidad, and to rise up to the surface of the water.

  44. The Globigerina ooze is the most widespread of modern calcareous formations.

  45. In the Globigerina ooze of the present day there is always a slight admixture of volcanic materials derived either from wind-blown dust, from submarine eruptions or from floating pieces of pumice.

  46. Down under ooze and salty weed, She'll make thee hear--and then her own!

  47. XVII This and that other thing the Nubians bore, And by degrees filled-up that channel wide, Whose waters were cut off the day before, So that in many parts the ooze was spied.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ooze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bleed; clay; dirt; discharge; drain; drip; effuse; eject; emanate; emit; excrete; excretion; exude; fester; filter; filtering; filtration; gumbo; leak; mire; muck; mud; ooze; percolate; percolation; reek; scum; secrete; seep; seepage; sew; shed; silt; slab; slime; slip; slob; slop; slosh; sludge; slush; squash; strain; straining; sweat; swill; transpire; trickle; weep; weeping; wriggle