Sentence examples for wet soap from inspiring English sources

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The steel pepper grinder shoots out of my hands like a bar of wet soap.

It was cheap and sturdy but also slipperier than wet soap, so no pass receiver could hold on to it.

Twenty years later, John Wymer, who has died aged 77, unearthed a new piece of the same skull, which had, he said, the "consistency of wet soap".

In the 17th century the European aristocracy, who washed little, wore linen shirts in order to draw out dirt from the skin instead, and heavy perfumes and oils to mask bad smells.The meaning of dirt is as slippery as a bar of wet soap.

Parish is generous with details: Anne Bancroft, to whom Brooks was married for 40 years, paid for acting school by teaching English to the Peruvian singer Yma Sumac; the foley artists responsible for the campfire flatulence of "Blazing Saddles" relied on hand-armpit coordination and wet soap for sound effects.

It chooses to offer some sympathy in a leading article that also draws on the oil spill, describing Green as "the man who handled the ball as if it had just been dunked in the Gulf of Mexico and had emerged as slippery as wet soap".

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It strips the wine of its fruit even in low concentrations and effects the bouquet with notes of wet cardboard, soap and other unpleasant characteristics.

Wet bar soap.

"It's like a wet bar of soap," Mr. Facey said.

Conversing with her was like grabbing a wet bar of soap as it fell.

Kevin Delaney, a three-time overall world snowboarding champion, likens it to standing on a wet bar of soap.

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