How to Use ooze in a Sentence

ooze

1 of 2 noun
Definition of oozenext
Synonyms for oozenext
  • It is worn on the parts of the body that sweat and ooze.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The sounds of funk, freestyle and R&B oldies ooze loudly from passing cars.
    — Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • Even the toilets ooze '70s decor, with brown and white paisley tiles.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Sometimes, the bumps can get larger, turn red, itch, and ooze.
    — Women's Health, 26 June 2023
  • Go with a relaxed fit, a la the Joedy from Frank & Eileen, and ooze nonchalance.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The bagel’s overflowing with seasoning and cream cheese oozes out of the bagel hole.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a white ooze-like substance seeping from the flesh (are the omega-3s escaping??).
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The big man in the Dodgers camo cap soon had his legs locked in ooze — as two neighbor women went running for help.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Take oil: nature at its most elemental; black ooze from the depths of the earth.
    — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 8 June 2021
  • The crisp cannoli ooze with Nutella, and spoons fly when a barge of a sundae is set down.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the delicate leaves to Swiss cheese, leaving trails of sticky ooze in their wake.
    — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The two main elements of that shot — Glazer’s stunned face and a big shmear of red ooze — are the centerpieces of the movie’s best scenes.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Globs of tartar sauce that taste like the stuff of your youth — creamy, classic and piquant — ooze out of every crevice.
    — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • This is a place of muscly monsters, rancid odors, and, it must be noted, quite a lot of ooze.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Sometimes limbs die back, but more often the first sign is amber-colored ooze on the trunk.
    — oregonlive, 13 June 2021
  • But exactly what’s in that dark ooze is still something of a mystery.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Not so in the Ferry Building area: The bedrock is as much as 240 feet below the water’s surface, topped by a thick ooze of young bay mud.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Woodard said, hoisting a hunk of metal dripping with black, bottom-of-the-harbor ooze.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Slabs of meat sizzle over grapevine embers, cheese breads ooze by the dozen, and soup dumplings arrive by the hot, slurpy vatful.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2021
  • In severe cases, eczema can even cause the skin to blister, crack, and ooze, which can be painful and can increase the risk of infection.
    — Women's Health, 10 June 2023
  • Create substances that fizz or ooze with this science kit.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
  • After nearly five hours, the craft landed on the bottom, stirring up silt and ooze and clouding the small porthole.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Time in the sun Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
  • The gummy ooze was poured in molds and stored until most of its water had evaporated.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the psychedelic Relic of Yore floor lamp appears to have grown from the floor, and tendril-like graphics ooze from the walls.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 June 2022
  • Toyota and Lexus had a problem with dashboards that would crack, melt, ooze and stink in extremely hot weather.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The blood-red awning and lamps adorning the classic façade of this 1928 building ooze sophistication.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The shake was a distressing color of green reminiscent of the ooze from which four teen turtles emerged with ninja skills.
    — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This approach, inadvertently, led to the green ooze on I-696.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Ayo Edebiri plays April O’Neil, a young investigative reporter who doesn’t know her goo from her ooze and takes an interest in the group.
    — Vulture, 1 June 2023
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ooze

2 of 2 verb
  • Juice oozed out of the plum.
  • Sap oozed from the tree.
  • The tree was oozing sap.
  • The cut on her finger was oozing with blood.
  • The cut on her finger was oozing blood.
  • The berries will ooze, as will the dairy, but the toast will stay crisp.
    — Ali Slagle, Bon Appétit, 3 May 2022
  • Pruning cuts on fruit trees are slanted because of the sap that can ooze over the bud eye.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2021
  • This season, White’s confidence oozed at both ends of the court.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • Inspired by Viking lodges and decked out with cozy fireplaces, each room oozes with hygge.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Pipe a ring of frosting around the cake layer, just inside the top edge, to keep the filling from oozing out.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the most extreme heat will ooze into the south-central and southwestern U.S. over the next few days.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022
  • Like, a dude who can rock anything with sick patches just oozes vintage cool — yes.
    — Yoora Kim, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
  • That's because cold, wintry air will ooze down from Canada in the system's wake.
    — Cnn Meteorologist Tyler Mauldin, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
  • His swollen foot, with the puncture wound oozing, looked like a rotting eggplant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Today: What’s that white stuff oozing out of my chicken?
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 22 Oct. 2023
  • This time around, Stone added an alluring pause that oozed with new tension.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • There was crawfish cooked with spinach, savory soups oozing with red palm oil, and mounds of rice sprinkled with onions and shrimp.
    — Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The oozing cheese, lacy edges, and golden buns are everywhere.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The move is simple, slice the burrata open when the pizza hits the table and let the gooey stracciatella ooze out and spread it all over each slice.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2018
  • This causes oozing wounds that lead to wilting leaves and dead branches.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As one of the newest additions to Ugg’s spring lineup, these platform shoes ooze pure fun.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2022
  • High above the clamor of Monterosso’s village life, Casa di Andrea oozes with charm and garden views.
    — Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That means with Chatfield's slime still oozing down the statehouse steps, lawmakers will have to start from scratch next year.
    — Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2022
  • On garbage days in Manhattan, towers of fetid trash bags line the streets, with food and liquids oozing on to sidewalks.
    — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • The excessive adhesive that oozed out of the joint was spread into what amounted to a fillet weld joint of epoxy.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Cheval Blanc oozes sophistication from a magnificent perch right above the banks of the Seine.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Your body, which oozed and groaned under the yoke of illness, is now a perfectly humming machine.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • As the dolphins grind against the corals and sponges, the friction causes the disturbed coral polyps to ooze fluid that sometimes stains the dolphins’ skin bright yellow or green.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
  • Spackle the back of the mesh, press it in place, then use a putty knife to smooth the spackle that oozes through and remove excess, but not so much as to keep the mesh from being fully embedded.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Waters’ magically whimsical pen dots their romance with just the right amount of sentiment, the yearning oozing off the page.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024

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