Sentence examples for slick of oil from inspiring English sources

2. Cover bottom of a medium sauté pan with a thick slick of oil.

Beyond that was the river, a slick of oil in a phosphorescent sea.

The basin on the right contained reverse-osmosis backwash: it was molasses black, topped with a rainbow slick of oil.

A journalist and a photographer were killed when a slick of oil ignited as they crossed it.

Fresh from the store, with a dusty slick of oil to prevent it from rusting, it looks primitive and unlovely.

Both function reliably, though a slick of oil in the pan before the rice and water are added minimizes sticking.

"Nothing really makes sense out here," Dr. Joye said as her ship plowed through orange slicks of oil.

Another Meisel story, this time from 2010, conjured a Deepwater Horizon-style oil spill, and featured models as mermaids washed up in slicks of oil.

Slicks of oil were edging closer to the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle on Thursday, and emergency workers hurried to link up chains of protective boom, stretching for miles, that could prevent much of the oil from reaching the shore.

You can almost smell it, as you stare at smoke from makeshift refineries and slicks of oil along river banks: the ongoing oil bunkering.

Small glimmers of incredulity like slicks of oil.