Sentence examples for slimy with from inspiring English sources

The current is not strong, but the rocks are slimy with hippo leavings.

"Black and slimy with filth, very small, and as hot as an oven," Browne complained, though, as Dolin notes, he was writing an exposé.

Show Allen a pile of soil, fully composted or still slimy with banana peels, and he's compelled to scoop some into his melon-size hands.

Their meals reflect this diversity: Filipino greens, cooked in sweetened soy sauce, incomprehensible Danish cold cuts.A mid-19th-century crewman described his quarters thus: "Black, and slimy with filth, very small and hot as an oven.

In his descriptions of Gollum, the misunderstood monster from "The Hobbit" and his "Lord of the Rings" novels, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that he was small and slimy with eyes that glow like green lamps.

Brace yourself for the delivery of a new replicant, not born as a baby but slithering out from a plastic sheath as an instant adult, slimy with fabricated vernix and quaking at the shock of being alive.

Slipmouth, also called ponyfishes or slimys, any of certain fishes (order Perciformes) that are characterized by slimy bodies with small scales and greatly protrusible mouths.

Cindy Sherman's Amazon is a slimy doll with mismatched stuck-on limbs and a helmet head, part robot, part Fu Manchu.

And if you're a northern female slimy salamander with no such luck, you may want to head south, where your counterparts make egg-laying a two-yearly ordeal.One non-event is certain.

C. collinitis has a lighter brown slimy cap, with glutinous bands on the stem that are rarely tinged purple.

He is a stammering, slimy man with a face like a lima bean and the morals of a starved rat.