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Example sentences for "oozes"

Lexicographically close words:
oot; oother; ootside; ooze; oozed; oozing; oozy; opaca; opacities
  1. The sticky and almost solid mass fills up the opening and oozes through with difficulty.

  2. In cases of vicarious menstruation from the rectum the venous blood simply oozes from the surface of the over-congested mucous membrane.

  3. The glairy fluid of colloid carcinoma oozes from the cut surface of the tumor, bathes it, and is to be found in the intestine.

  4. The rectum becomes blocked with fungoid growths: both these and the cancer proper are very vascular, and frequent hemorrhages occur, and an offensive muco-purulent discharge constantly oozes from the bowel.

  5. This water oozes out from them of itself, on the least movement of the jaw, which presses upon the sponges as it goes up and down.

  6. A portion of the skin first becomes gray, or even black, in appearance, and around it oozes an inflammatory exudate, or even pus.

  7. With a tool something like a chisel, the coolie takes a shaving off each strip of bark, whereupon milk oozes out from the cuts, makes for the central channel, and trickles down into an enamel cup that awaits it at the base of the trunk.

  8. Out oozes a thickish white substance, some of which drops on to your fingers.

  9. With a flint axehead he probes the bark, when out oozes a thick white fluid, some of which drops on his hand.

  10. Abscesses may form and the udder break and a thick yellowish pus oozes out or the milk glands may solidify and cause hard, lumpy growths in the udder.

  11. These wells are situated immediately behind the sandy beach--they are merely pits into which the fresh water, with which the ground had become saturated during the rainy season, oozes through the sand, having undergone a kind of filtration.

  12. The small bay on the western side of the island, where the ship lay, has a steep beach of fragments of dead coral, through which oozes the water of two streamlets, at one of which the ship completed her stock with great facility.

  13. The sap from the Spruce Fir does not flow freely when the bark is wounded, as it does from the Scotch Pine; but oozes out gradually, and is what is called Burgundy pitch in the shops.

  14. Cambogia, the tree producing the gamboge, which is a kind of gum that oozes out from the stem.

  15. Troy bore me; not alien to thee am I, nor this blood that oozes from the stem.

  16. Not a drop of wine does he touch now but it flies to his head--not a kreuzer of his hard-earned money does he put into his pocket but it oozes away like water.

  17. A spring branch oozes out of the rocky turf, and flows down to meet a shallow river fretting over shoals.

  18. Here are verses that in spite Of myself I needs must write, Like the wine that oozes first When the unsqueezed grapes have burst.

  19. For this balm that oozes from the tree of heaven will inevitably cure.

  20. From what tree of the forest oozes there a balm that can soothe the gamester's heart?

  21. This is due to an acrid oil which oozes out of the joints of the beetle's legs when it is handled and thinks itself in danger.

  22. The hard ground softens; the sun lies warm upon the southern bank, and water oozes from its base.

  23. The soil on which it is erected is indeed ill-adapted to the purpose, as it is salt; and the salt oozes out through the walls, and materially undermines their solidity.

  24. A stream, however, oozes out from the base, which finally expends itself in the plain about Kashan.

  25. Green wood cut in winter burns slowly and oozes water at the ends in the same discouraging way as it does in summertime.

  26. The sap that oozes out of the pith and heart wood was frozen, and dripped not at all until it was brought indoors.

  27. When the blood merely oozes from the wound, and even when it flows in a small stream, the forming of the clot arrests the hemorrhage in a comparatively short time.

  28. If the pock forms on a surface where there is thick hair it does not rise as a blister, but oozes out a straw-colored fluid which concretes on the hairs in an amber-colored mass.

  29. The bitumen oozes out, and the coal cakes in burning.

  30. When soft coal burns, a waxy tar oozes out of it, which tends to smother the fire.

  31. Taken in the fingers, a limpid serum oozes from the hinder part of the body, which moistens the whole surface.

  32. The honey oozes forth and is instantly licked up.

  33. The egg, as I have said, is always at the base of the acorn, in the midst of a soft cottony layer which is moistened by the sap which oozes from the stalk.

  34. What remains after this scouring process, or what oozes from the band before it has set, spreads over the sides of the nest in a thin layer of bubbles so fine that they cannot be distinguished without the aid of a lens.

  35. It is swollen with fluid, which oozes from it and moistens the whole body.

  36. The broad upper part of the stratum catches plenty of water during the wet season, which sinks into the depths as into a reservoir, and oozes out in a regular stream at its lower outlet.

  37. The water oozes through the membrane, and by its evaporation the contents are kept very cool.

  38. An earth-movement here has created a line of fault clearly visible for seventy or eighty miles along the river-bank, out of which oil oozes at frequent intervals.

  39. Out of the over-hanging banks it oozes at every fissure, and into some of the bituminous tar-wells we can poke a twenty foot pole and find no resistance.

  40. If there is one little pin-hole and the air oozes out, he throws the boots back to her, and she may take up the pedal gauntlet in one of two ways.

  41. Where water oozes from the earth one may sometimes see a rusty deposit on the ground, and perhaps an iridescent scum upon the water.

  42. The Lower and the Upper Huronian consist in the main of old sea muds and sands and limy oozes now changed to gneisses, schists, marbles, quartzites, slates, and other metamorphic rocks.

  43. Separated from them by the deep Atlantic oozes are other sedimentary deposits now accumulating along the west coast of Europe.

  44. In this way pebbles torn by the inland ice from the rocks of the interior of Greenland and glaciated during their carriage in the ground moraine are dropped at last among the oozes of the bottom of the North Atlantic.

  45. Globigerina Ooze under the Microscope] Deep-Sea Oozes and Clays =Globigerina ooze.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oozes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.