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Example sentences for "oozing"

Lexicographically close words:
oother; ootside; ooze; oozed; oozes; oozy; opaca; opacities; opacity
  1. He wondered afterward how his confused senses and trembling limbs sustained him along the narrow, rugged path, here and there covered with oozing green moss, and slippery with the continual moisture.

  2. Neolithic culture and its brownish possessors may have been oozing round the world through the warmer regions of the world, drifting by canoes often across wide stretches of sea.

  3. Above all there grew trees oozing with delicious-scented resins or gums.

  4. It was a strange school, upon my word, notwithstanding its pompous title of 'upper'; a sort of huge cellar oozing with the perpetual damp engendered by a well backing on it in the street outside.

  5. By this time the whole after-part of the vessel was shrouded in smoke that had been oozing out from the door and windows of the cabin, and which, in consequence of the stillness of the night, was not carried away.

  6. The big man threw the light upon the poor thing's foot, and it was oozing with blood and black stuff like tar.

  7. Nothing could keep him from cutting up, even when his thumb was done round with oozing rag, anything jointed or cellular; and the smell of the bones he collected was dreadful, even in the drawer where his frilled shirts were laid.

  8. In spite of Helen's joy in travel, I found my courage oozing out of me on that train.

  9. My forehead strikes the lamp, which is hooked on the wall; it is out, oozing oil, and it stinks.

  10. From time to time, through a breach contrived between sandbags so decomposed and oozing that they seem to have lived, we go out to a little winterly and mournful crossing, to look about.

  11. His mask held him impervious to the deadly fumes of the oozing sap, but well enough he knew that, in such a presence, it was only that ingenious contrivance that stood between him and swift death.

  12. But the crushed blooms, oozing thick sap from their wounds, were something almost evil for eyes that had knowledge behind them.

  13. He came to a stand beside the body of the man, fallen with its face buried amidst the bruised and oozing Adresol.

  14. The oozing weed was compressed, and the binding cords made fast.

  15. By the light of the moon he saw the figure of the girl, already some distance from the house, swiftly making her way along the reedy canal path which threaded the oozing marshes.

  16. It was clad in a flannel sleeping suit, spattered with mud and clay, and oozing with water.

  17. About the base of the globe were minute perforations through which the liquid that was placed in the vessel slowly oozed, and oozing ran together into a drop at the bottom which fell at intervals into the bucket of a tiny wheel.

  18. Now a vast roast turkey, stretched on the broad of his back, with his heels in the air and the rich juices oozing from his fat sides .

  19. The water, oozing from the southwest, along this gravel bed, has dissolved that side of the statue and gives it a pitted appearance, such as masses of gypsum or limestone acquire when long exposed to the action of the water.

  20. The sculpture must have been done some years ago, or the lower parts of the figure would not have crumbled and been washed away by the sluggish oozing of the water through the soil.

  21. Mouldering it stands, in rust and eating damp, While the slow oil keeps oozing from its cell!

  22. More secretly, for the avenging rack, Him who hath done the deed, till, oozing black Ye watch the anguish from his nostrils drip, And all the knotted limbs lie quivering!

  23. And that brought me back to his chin--back to that big, oozing cut.

  24. There was a musket--shot right in the middle of his fine forehead, like a small blue point, with one or two heavy black drops of blood oozing from it.

  25. In many instances in which the surgeon attempts to carry out myomectomy or enucleation, he has such difficulty in controlling the oozing that he is driven to remove the uterus.

  26. In order to extirpate the lymph glands, the peritoneum is divided upwards and the iliac vessels laid bare, and every enlarged gland from the division of the aorta to the obturator foramen is removed and the oozing vessels carefully secured.

  27. In the majority of cases this is more of an inconvenience than a danger, being chiefly due to a general oozing from the soft tissues.

  28. After removing the diseased parts and securing the large vessels directly concerned in the pedicles, attention is directed to the oozing from the torn tissues in the floor of the pelvis.

  29. There may be slight oozing from the surface of the wound, but as a rule the bone appears almost white, owing to the fact that granulations have not yet begun to form.

  30. The chief difficulties are anatomical, and the inability to obtain a clear view owing to general oozing of blood.

  31. Sometimes the oozing is difficult to control, and the surgeon sutures the edges of the capsule to the lower angle of the incision, and stuffs the cavity or bed of the tumour with gauze.

  32. Considerable time may have to be spent in arresting the oozing from the surface of the bone cavity.

  33. During the operation, pieces of this gauze, 1 to 1-1/2 yards long, prove very useful in checking any oozing and allowing a clear inspection of the walls of the sinus.

  34. The mouth of the sphenoidal sinus is often indicated by the muco-pus oozing from it or pulsating in harmony with the pulse.

  35. Even at this early stage, a slight, serous oozing may be detected.

  36. The swelling has increased and is increasing; the pain is severe; and finally, at the spot where the kick inpinged, there is an oozing of an oily liquid mixed with whitish drops of suppuration.

  37. In severe cases we may have ulceration of the skin, and serum pours out from the surface, resembling the oozing which we have after a blister or in a case of grease.

  38. Occasionally a slow dripping of blood-tinged serum from the nostrils is observed as a result of this very thin blood oozing from the mucous membranes.

  39. Fomentations with warm water may also be used to favor oozing from the incisions and to encourage the formation of white matter in the original wounds, which must not be allowed to close again at once.

  40. On examining its upper surface the orifices of the urethra maybe seen, one on each side, a short distance behind the neck, with the urine oozing from them drop by drop.

  41. The whole scene, the picture of wet misery, the dirt and squalor and discomfort made Rawbon shiver as much from disgust as from the raw cold that clung about the oozing clay walls and began to bite through to his soaking feet and legs.

  42. However, all this greatness vanished when a drop of blood came oozing from the long black bruise, and still more when I tried to express my deep compassion.

  43. Rim of dawn the darkness losing Trail of blackened soil; Perfume of the sage brush oozing On the air like oil.

  44. The wild goose, homing, seeks a sheltering, Where rushes grow, and oozing lichens cling.


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