Example Sentences

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Someone at the start of a promising career in journalism who is so aggressively flattering and greasily evasive, with a snap-on, snakelike, aw-shucks smile, has got to have a scheme up his sleeve.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

It was less clear that the greasily reliable New York slice, baked at lower heat in gas ovens and consumed on the sidewalk by guys like Tony Manero, belonged to any culinary tradition at all.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Firm and muscular, yet given to melting greasily in the mouth, the all-powerful salt and vinegar McCoy’s is, perhaps, the ultimate crisp sandwich filling.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019

Fear slithers up my spine, spills greasily down my throat.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019

She shone greasily as she leaned out of the dentist’s shadow.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou