GREASY in a Sentence

Learn GREASY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
36 example sentences for GREASY, such as:
1. She was encircled by greasy eyes.
2. She loathed the sight of greasy food.
3. The sink was piled high with greasy dishes.
4. The fish was OK, but the chips were a tad greasy.
5. During the summer, my skin sometimes gets greasy.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GREASY
greasy
 a.  containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
 a.  smeared or soiled with grease or oil
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  There were small stuffy corn-fields and brick-yards and greasy oil-wells.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  He filled the grease-cups, varnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, copper washers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  She was encircled by greasy eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  It plays at cards on greasy oil-cloth in a shanty, and does not know that prophets are walking and talking on the terrace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  Jurgis had long ago cast off his fertilizer clothing, and since going into politics he had donned a linen collar and a greasy red necktie.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
7  In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers's chair, being greasy with shoulders.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
10  The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers's room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
11  We ate the whole of the toast, and drank tea in proportion, and it was delightful to see how warm and greasy we all got after it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVII
12  I think it was over the kitchen, because a warm greasy smell appeared to come up through the chinks in the floor, and there was a flabby perspiration on the walls.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
13  Traddles ran his greasy hands through his hair, and stood it bolt upright, and stared in confusion on the table-cloth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
14  Then two officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a big beard, wearing a greasy forage cap.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 2
15  The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  She loathed the sight of greasy food.
2  The sink was piled high with greasy dishes.
3  The fish was OK, but the chips were a tad greasy.
4  During the summer, my skin sometimes gets greasy.
5  Read below for information on some hygiene basics and learn how to deal with greasy hair, perspiration, and body hair.
6  He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses -- no, he only had one.