(a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(4) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(5) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
(6) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
(7) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(8) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(9) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(10) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(11) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(12) The effects of flaxseed oil on tissue amounts of individual saturated fatty acids were minimal, but amounts of monounsaturated fatty acids, especially C18:1, were depressed.
(13) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(16) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(17) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(18) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
(19) The latter oil mixture resulted in a predictable reduction in kidney PGE2 and 6-keto PGF1 alpha (hydrolysis product of PGI2), aortic 6-keto PGF1 alpha and serum TXB2.
(20) The medium-chain triglyceride oil supplementation did not influence the growth of these infants.
Toiled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Toil
Example Sentences:
(1) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
(2) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(3) We're all in this together, says George Osborne, and with workers' wages lagging inflation, it is only fair that those who don't have to toil for a living should share in the squeeze.
(4) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
(5) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
(6) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
(7) Around the world, young workers expected to toil for months at a time for little or no pay are battling to be rewarded fairly.
(8) The striker toiled alone for much of the match and even though Mauricio Pochettino insisted afterwards that there is no reason for Kane to be unable to continue carrying such a burden for the entire season, it is easy to see why Spurs are interested in signing another striker, notably West Bromwich Albion’s Saido Berahino.
(9) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(10) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
(11) A place in the top four, now just a point away, is there for the taking given Chelsea’s toils across town and there is enough quality and momentum behind this team to take advantage.
(12) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
(13) Take simple ingredients: an economy enduring bad times, a coalition in the toils, a world full of problems.
(14) We see Schenck, after toiling heroically in the underground field hospital, looking shocked at the antics of Hitler's entourage.
(15) Roy Hodgson claimed he always believed England would recover from their toils at the World Cup to progress unbeaten to next summer’s European Championship as his side completed a perfect qualifying record on a night marred by crowd trouble in Lithuania.
(16) He toiled away at drafting bills for Labour’s first 100 days in power – ready in time for tomorrow’s Queen’s speech.
(17) Paulinho’s toils have been the subject of tremendous scrutiny, after a season in which he did not influence games at Tottenham Hotspur as impressively as he did for Brazil at the Confederations Cup.
(18) What today’s landmark employment tribunal has done is challenge the business logic that suggests Uber drivers are not toiling for the firm but entrepreneurs working for themselves.
(19) But the second is his belief that some people are "somebodys" who are born to own, control and enjoy while others are "nobodys" whose lot is to serve, toil and endure – a mindset shared by most Nigerians, at every stratum of our society.
(20) 3) In case of "lacking genius" the individual toils in vain with science.