Sentence examples for were oiled from inspiring English sources

The SCAT teams were focussing their surveys on other heavily oiled areas, and on nearby rookeries, some of which were oiled while birds were nesting.

The article said that 1,400 eggs were oiled in 2004.

There were an additional 14 dead birds that have been found for which it has not yet been determined if they were oiled.

His muscles were oiled, then covered by a layer of grime — so that he would look like a toreador when he took his victory lap.

It was there that Mrs. Adelman saw that sticky keys were oiled, that carriages sailed back and forth, that clattering motors in electric machines were quieted.

The wheels of merger were oiled by £65m of extra funding secured from government and regional bodies before the two ruling councils gave the go-ahead yesterday.

His muscled body is oiled and gleaming.

Continue until all the hinges are oiled.

Brass instruments must be oiled and greased.

They were oil rigs.

Both men were oil venture entrepreneurs.