ooze
verb (used without object)
(of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
will ooze
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future tenseof ooze.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Do you fear that cookies will ooze into a giant pan-size mess?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
When heated, the same nanoheaters will ooze the chemicals stored within them in addition to generating heat.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024
You want to use enough frosting that it will fill the cookie, but not so much that it will ooze out when you press it.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2021
It is also very oily, like the fried rock shrimp and the teppanyaki garlic rice, which will ooze oil as you watch.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2018
Fill one pad with shellac of the consistency of milk, enough in the pad so that when squeezed hard it will ooze out.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
