"I think we should stay here," she said, setting down the crust of her oil-saturated bread.

The oil-saturated earth was covered by fertile soil shipped from Lankaran, the subtropical part of Azerbaijan.

On older mowers, the canister is usually semi-rectangular, and inside is an oil-saturated filter made of plastic foam, intended to be regularly cleaned.

The United States has few more important - or skittish - partners in its war against terrorism than the oil-saturated kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Dozens of opened wooden crates were stacked everywhere, and he could smell the aroma of the oil-saturated packing material that lined the weapons boxes.

Shipping company Dockwise says it will send Mighty Servant 3 to collect oil-saturated solid material and oily water.

Second, strop the blade by alternately stroking the underside and the beveled side several times against a strip of smooth, oil-saturated leather or dry cardboard.

All freshness and opportunity were lost in a dish of oil-saturated fettuccine tossed with artichokes, asparagus, peas and pecorino.

In addition, bases have been made from dimensional lumber bolted together to form a large block or steel drums full of oil-saturated sand to provide a damping effect.

Iñupiat people on the North Slope of Alaska had mined oil-saturated peat for possibly thousands of years, using it as fuel for heat and light.

The Medea report said release of such data would aid the search for manganese nodules, titanium deposits, oil-saturated sediments and salt domes that act as petroleum traps.

WHEN Phillips discovered petroleum in 1969 in Norway's part of the North Sea, it was in shallow water (about 200 feet), below which lay oil-saturated chalk.

Ishmael, after he washes up on shore and meets Una at a party, speculates that men who kill whales, the sea's "great, oil-saturated" babies, show that they "hate the oceanic mother."

An Iraqi environmental engineer who has visited the dumping area described it as a kind of black swampland of oil-saturated terrain and large standing pools of oil stretching across several mountain valleys.

Pictures of rescuers trudging along beaches carrying oil-saturated birds recalled scenes from March 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the coast of Cornwall, spilling 100,000 tons of crude oil.

What he didn't know was that his little toy lodged on or near the oil-saturated lagging on the housing of the starboard turbo generator, and that when it went off, it would generate sufficient heat to set the sheathing on fire."

As Mr. Fedulov spoke, two workers in knee-high boots stood on each side of a creek, their feet sinking into the mucky tundra as they heaved and tugged at a wire connected to an oil-saturated ice floe, trying to lug it downriver.

It should be noted at the outset, however, that the rating reflects our taking into account a wide range of preparations, from the sushi counter's excellent raw fish expertly cut to some of the kitchen's painfully incompetent offerings like leaden, oil-saturated tempura fried in oil that was clearly not hot enough.

There are the final actual shots of dead, oil-saturated animals, in counterpoint with Mr. Lawn, wondering why "the stock market and bottom line is more important than the land and the sea" and President Bush, explaining in voice-over that he has concern for the environment but does not want to take "irresponsible action."

Extracting oil (or "bitumen") from oil/tar sand and oil shale deposits requires mining the sand or shale and heating it in a vessel or retort, or using "in-situ" methods of injecting heated liquids into the deposit and then pumping out the oil-saturated liquid.

When The New Yorker ran Barry Blitt's "Five Weeks Later.," which showed a man in a suit testifying before a panel of oil-saturated marine animals, on our June 7, 2010, issue, our art editor, Françoise Mouly, assumed that would be our cover about the Deepwater Horizon disaster.