Dusty unoiled roads. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That being the case, she had left the hinges unoiled. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
I heard its lock, too long unoiled, grate back to closure. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
The door opened with a dry, grating clunk, the sound of unoiled hinges. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection Men]
Mrs. Whatsit's unoiled-door-hinge voice was warm with affection and pride. From Wordnik.com. [A Wrinkle in Time]
Brianna flung her door open with a squeal of metal from the unoiled hinges. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Its voice creaked like unoiled hinges as it wheezed and gasped words at him. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
The engine room was last and the unoiled door hinges squealed like all the others. From Wordnik.com. [2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog] Reference
Shaking Arthur Bradford's hand was like shaking hands with an old, unoiled baseball glove. From Wordnik.com. [One False Move]
But the gears were stiff, unoiled, reluctant, and the distraction caused him to be careless. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
With a grinding protest of gears long unoiled, the caddy folded itself face-downward on its shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Place into a large bowl unoiled, cover with plastic wrap and let the dough begin to proof for 1 hour. From Wordnik.com. [Baking Bites » Print » Brioche] Reference
But just then the bus doors screeched shut on unoiled hinges behind the final two members of the group. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Soldier]
He silently wondered if someone had pulled on an unoiled hinge and he'd mistaken the strange sound for words. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
The harmonics seemed to squeak in derision; they flatted, and the sound was like the wheels of a cart unoiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Then came the distinct sound of whistling, and the squeak of unoiled wheels moving closer and closer and closer. From Wordnik.com. [Vanished] Reference
As it was she nodded as she walked, and again the song of the bluebird peeped dreamily from out the unoiled spindle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Another 19,500 unoiled penguins were relocated to clean waters 560 miles away to prevent them from becoming oiled as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference
Before she could correct the deputy's mistake, the curtain was whisked aside with a screech of metal rings on an unoiled track. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness]
A voice emerged from among turned-up coat collar, stole, scarves, and hat, a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [A Wrinkle in Time]
In the year following the Treasure oil spill, however, the reproductive success of the previously oiled penguins rivaled that of their unoiled counterparts. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference
Judge Holland also dismissed the claims of "unoiled" property owners for devaluation of their property, and the Alaska Natives 'claims for injury to their subsistence culture. ". From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
And something clashed in Yozhov's throat, like broken glass, and creaked like an unoiled hinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
He lay very quiet -- comatose, drugged, his eyes wide, his mind clicking wildly like an unoiled machine. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
He lay very quiet — comatose, drugged, his eyes wide, his mind clicking wildly like an unoiled machine. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
On the road a tractor was jolting along -- I could hear its driver shout and the screech of its unoiled axle. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
I defy any man to say whether that shriek came from the rasp of an unoiled metal bearing or from a human throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle] Reference
It seemed to him that in another moment he would hear somewhere the creaking of the mechanism, the screeching of unoiled wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Who Were Hanged] Reference
As she began to turn her face toward him, with a motion of the head like that of a machine on unoiled bearings, he closed his eyes; but he felt her looking at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
When this washing is finished, the leg sticks to the snaring-thread quite easily and adheres to it just as well as anything else would, the unoiled straw, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
And something clashed in Yozhov’s throat, like broken glass, and creaked like an unoiled hinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
Keep the magazine tube clean and unoiled. From Wordnik.com. [The 50 Best Guns Ever Made, Revisited] Reference
Ultra 1 unoiled: 480. From Wordnik.com. [Shoryuken] Reference
Turn at once into an unoiled pan. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
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