Example Sentences

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I hate to use this word, but it was oozing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2025

“If you spent five minutes there, you could tell it was oozing with talented students. And there were amazing professors I adore who were also blindsided by this,” she said.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024

Talent was oozing from the Top 14, but it wasn’t transforming into a national team worthy of its parts.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2020

The Water Theatre Grove was oozing with mud from recent rains.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2015

Although they did not know it then, the steel reactor vessel had been breached, and the radioactive fuel was oozing into the drywell, the open space in the primary containment chamber.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland