Sentence examples for greased from inspiring English sources

Heiress Tamara Ecclestone seems to be inheriting her Formula One dad's interest in wheels as she recreates the spirit of the Greased Lightning scene from Grease.

6 Repeat the shaping process with the remaining dough portions, then arrange the bagels on a lightly greased surface, cover loosely with clingfilm and leave to rise in a warm room for 45‑60 minutes, until they're visibly puffier and roughly 1 ½ times their original size.

Put each stick on the greased baking tray. 2 Whisk together the tomato puree, 1 tbsp of olive oil and boiling water, then brush the strips with the mixture.

BRASH, glitzy and growing like greased lightning, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is a powerful emblem of the emerging India.

At the border of Tanzania and Kenya lorries are kept waiting for a week or more if the right palms are not greased.

It makes the complex immigration procedures at American airports feel like greased lightning.

Others remember him going, with a greased-up pompadour and a bag of demo tapes, to knock on doors on Broadway, where Burt Bacharach and Hal David eventually adopted him.

However, the addition of one more well-greased pencil pusher is unlikely to make a real difference to the accounts of one of the world's largest employers.

With his greased-back hair teased into a kiss curl, he makes a decent stab at a baby-faced Elvis impersonator, while the rest of him is more determinedly Rat Pack: white socks, black shoes.

The members of a tight, well-greased kitchen staff are a lot like a submarine crew.

As an undergraduate at Columbia in the nineteen-sixties, he and his brother George revolutionized the school's a-cappella group by having everyone dress as faux Brooklyn thugs (white T-shirts, greased-back hair) and sing up-tempo arrangements of such nineteen-fifties doo-wop classics as "Duke of Earl" and "At the Hop".