GREASE in a Sentence

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For GREASE, below is one of 41 sentences:
Scarlett saw with amazement that her percale dress had grease spots on it and her hands were freckled and unclean.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREASE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grease
 n.  oil; fat; state of being covered with unclean things
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  But there was unmistakably a grease spot on the front of the basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Perhaps some of the bacon grease Dilcey was using for illumination could be used for seasoning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  She must remember to tell Dilcey to use pine knots and save the grease for cooking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Scarlett saw with amazement that her percale dress had grease spots on it and her hands were freckled and unclean.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  She liked the smell of hot earth and clean grease; and the leisurely chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug of the trucks was a song of contentment in the sun.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  But she now viewed a back room with a homemade refrigerator of yellow smeared with black grease.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
10  There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  When there was nothing else to be done with a thing, they first put it into a tank and got out of it all the tallow and grease, and then they made it into fertilizer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  I take off my ring, I wear my worst clothes, I use no bear's grease, and I frequently lament over the late Miss Larkins's faded flower.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
13  This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
14  Yet of the fact that all four articles were thickly coated with grease neither the master of the house nor the mistress nor the servants seemed to entertain the least suspicion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
15  Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  It took a considerable amount of polish and elbow grease before the brass shone like new.
2  Line the base of the dish with greaseproof paper and lightly grease the sides.
3  You put grease on a wheel to make it turn more easily.
4  Elbow grease gives the best polish.
5  The dinner plates were thick with grease.
6  This new kitchen cleaner is formulated to cut through grease and dirt.
7  Her hands were covered with oil and grease.
8  First remove any grease or dirt from the surface.
9  I clean out all the grease and replace it with oil so it works better in very low temperatures.
10  It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
11  Joseph was able to grease a few palms, thus helping his brother to escape.
12  The widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
13  WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
14  He had a ducktail hairdo, crew cut on top, long hair greased back on the sides.