oiled

IPA: ˈɔɪɫd

Examples of "oiled" in Sentences

The naked blade sat on the ground instead of in oiled leathers.
Solomons and New Guinea who carried their god about them, wrapped in oiled paper.
I imagined my pedicured feet, with their rough skin oiled and massaged to a comforting softness.
They hold an edge a lot longer, and though the metal rusts if not oiled, that is the only drawback and is an infinitely tiny one at that.
And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.
Only on one point there is universal agreement, let the machine be working either in the right direction or the wrong -- so long as it is working it must be oiled, that is a necessity of machine-life, so to speak -- the man or convict must be _fed_.