Example Sentences

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In Tuapse, black, oil-like drops have fallen from the sky in recent weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Chemical recycling typically uses heat or chemical solvents to break down plastics into liquid and gas to produce an oil-like mixture or basic chemicals.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

First, they made individual polymers, linking a hydrophobic, or oil-like portion, to a hydrophilic, or waterlike strand.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 29, 2022

A wreck, a concentrated waste patch and an oil-like slick had been spotted near the crash site, Latvian search and rescue head Peteris Subbota told Latvian television, adding that no passengers had been found.

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2022

Dead ahead of us, up through a bank of dun-coloured mist rose the moon, a great orb of crimson, spreading down the oil-like, still river, a streak of blood-red reflection. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.