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.