Example Sentences

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Throughout the study, I could feel the band oozily creeping up the back of my skull, like an ill-fitting graduation cap.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

There is an oozily loathsome shot of the sea squirt, a creature that resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose.

From Time Magazine Archive

The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and oily swell.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

His pipe had begun to bubble oozily every time he pulled at it.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

Chant in melody musical Hymns of bridal; on earth a foot Beating, hands to the winds above 15 Torches oozily swinging.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson