Example Sentences

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A small amount of sweet oil may be injected into the rectum which will lubricate the hard lumps and thus favor comfortable evacuation.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

We shall find plenty of room for your facility; it will lubricate our whole existence.

From The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by James, Henry

If oil ducts are bored in the bearing inside the cover, the splashed oil will lubricate the big pinion spindle automatically.

From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald