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adjective

lubricated

smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction

In a sentence

Six example sentences with lubricated, each labelled with its topic.

  • A properly lubricated bearing runs cool for years, while a dry one screams and fails in a month.

    Technology

  • The rowing machine's chain must stay lubricated, or the stroke turns gritty and the noise carries across the gym.

    Fitness

  • The rotating restaurant sits on a lubricated ring that turns once an hour without a sound.

    Architecture

  • A trumpet's valves must be kept lubricated, or they stick halfway down in the middle of a fast passage.

    Music

  • We kept the bicycle chains lubricated every evening of the tour, since the desert dust ground them dry by noon.

    Travel

  • In the friction experiment the lubricated steel plate needed a tenth of the pull that the dry one required.

    Science

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