ooze slowly
Frequency: 5.51.8 per million words
to flow or seep out gradually
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Examples (10)
- The thick syrup oozed slowly from the inverted bottle.
- As she walked through the swamp, mud oozed slowly between her toes.
- A strange, green liquid began to ooze slowly from the crack in the old pipe.
- After a series of disheartening failures, his confidence oozed slowly away.
- The molten lava oozed slowly down the steep slopes of the active volcano.
- Details of the political scandal started to ooze slowly into the public consciousness.
- From the freshly wounded tree trunk, sap oozes slowly and steadily.
- When heated, the rich, creamy cheese oozes slowly and enticingly over the crackers.
- As the eerie silence deepened, a sense of dread oozed slowly into their collective consciousness.
- Blood oozed slowly from his wound.