Sentence examples for black grease from inspiring English sources

Every pore of my face and neck is smothered with thick black grease and cloaked in charcoal.

I just wore lipstick, and we used black grease, melted by a candle on a matchstick for our mascara".

Industry standards in the two countries are also poles apart: in Java, many factory workers spend their days covered in toxic black grease.

Furiosa has a prosthetic arm, and her tendency to smear black grease across her brow may cause the fragrance honchos at Dior, where Theron is paid to spread the word about J'Adore, to reach for their atomizers.

In 1975, though, Diana Nyad made marathons and swimming in the Hudson news again when she circled Manhattan -- her body covered in black grease as protection against what one sportswriter called "the slime of the river".

During the era of slavery, white men performing in minstrel shows would apply a layer of black grease onto their faces, paint exaggerated red lips and dance to ridicule the very act of being black.

He uses one of the black grease-pencils Poge, the final crew member, makes from filter scrapings.

He stumbles among bicycles and horseless carriages, through a hall of distorting mirrors, growing progressively more frightened of the machines, dreading 'their panting, their heavy, telluric breath, skinless bones, viscera creaking and fetid with black-grease drool.' Finally he conceals himself in the sentry-box of a periscope, and crouches there, waiting for the stroke of midnight.

On the harbour-front, fishermen sit disconsolately before nets that are black with grease.

"It's true," says Mr. Jager, 41, who is generally so black with grease that one might mistake him for a chimney sweep.

They're always so black with grease and so strong with gasoline I don't know why they don't catch fire themselves.