petroleum jelly

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noun

another name for petrolatum

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Words nearby petroleum jelly

petrol bomb, petrolene, petrol engine, petroleum, petroleum ether, petroleum jelly, petrolhead, petrolic, petroliferous, Petrolina, petrology

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How to use petroleum jelly in a sentence

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Jan. 4|PunditFact.com|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Roll the pork over the stuffing, like a jelly roll, until the seam is facing down and the fat back is on top.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Due to its centrality, the Salt Lake field plays an outsized role in terms of strange petroleum events in the city.
The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A.|Geoff Manaugh|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The second upped the ante, taking aim at “cray,” “jelly,” “literally,” “teehee,” and “totes.”
Feminist, Bae, Turnt: Time’s ‘Worst Words’ List Is Sexist and Racist|Samantha Allen|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When the machinery had been stopped, it was found that Mr. Jones's arms and legs were macerated to a jelly.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
The model was first filled with inflammable materials such as shavings and large blocks of wood, over which petroleum was poured.
Asbestos|Robert H. Jones
Treated with hydrochloric acid, diluted with ten times its weight of water, it swells up into a jelly-like mass.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
I wanted you to make calls with me and to help me with the currant jelly and to put those button-holes into my linen wrapper.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
I learned how to make jelly from her old colored mammie, and heaps of things beside.
Those Dale Girls|Frank Weston Carruth