Example Sentences

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She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers.

From Time Magazine Archive

From that step to the bottom was held by the flood, which gurgled oilily through the deserted basement.

From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The sun shone; the vast pond-surface oilily undulated, or lay in absolute flatness, or at most defiled under our eyes in endless squadrons of low-riding crests.

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Hawthorne, Julian

"That's a fair deal, isn't it?" asked Giles Faswig, oilily.

From Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Bonehill, Ralph

As week followed week, life seemed to run so oilily at Lorge, that onlookers would have envied the unruffled lot of the tranquil lotus eaters.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis