Example Sentences

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Get ready to rumble: John McCain is oiling up to enter the ring as the Republicans’ heavyweight champ on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

From Newsweek

"The jolly miller has no corn to grind to-day," or, "The miller is oiling the great wheel."

From Mother Goose in Prose by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)