Example Sentences

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You’re hands looked as if you had been greasing a No. 19 bus.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2012

The stranger inspected a pair of hands that looked as if they had been greasing axles.

From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline