oil slick in English

noun
1
a film or layer of oil floating on an expanse of water, especially one that has leaked or been discharged from a ship.
Four miles from Kilkeel off the coast of County Down in Northern Ireland, there is a fresh oil slick on the water.

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1. The oil slick is now 35 miles long.

2. Her coffee had an oil slick on top.

3. A crude oil slick quickly spreads out over water.

4. Southeast winds nudged the oil slick onto the shore.

5. Instead, they found only bubbles and a thin oil slick.

6. The oil slick stretched all the way to the horizon.

7. The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.

8. This problem to some extent overshadowed the oil slick as an environmental issue.

9. Bad habits surface like bits of forgotten oil slick in a salmon farm.

10. The oil slick in the Persian Gulf seriously threatened the marine life around the sea.

11. The race ended in chaos when three riders drove into an oil slick and skidded off.

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13. As the flood crested, an oil slick caught fire and burned house down to the waterline.

14. You can see the smoke from a factory chimney or the oil slick menacing your favourite beach.

15. Sorbent Booms and Barriers Sorbent booms and barriers absorb a moving oil slick using a porous material.

16. 28 You can see the smoke from a factory chimney or the oil slick menacing your favourite beach.

17. Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.

18. Their task will be to help otters and seals which have been contaminated by the seven mile long oil slick.

19. Wednesday saw a US Coast Guard crew set fire to part of the oil slick in an attempt to save environmentally-sensitive wetlands.

20. With orthogonal design method, the prevention experiment was done by using the mixture combining 40% oxidizing dimethoate and 20% insect killing oil slick.

21. We recorded hundreds of dolphins and sea birds in the oil slick area, as well as sea snakes and threatened hawksbill and flatback turtles.

22. Two depth charge attacks forced her back to the surface, but she again submerged; after a third attack, a large oil slick was observed.

23. I got that, and then som When I finished Blowout by Rachel Maddow, I had to wash all the residual oil slick off my skin.

24. After patrolling for over two weeks, the destroyers spotted an oil slick, made sonar contact, and commenced depth charge attacks on the afternoon of 13 March 1944.

25. The oil slick was now moving north towards Dassen Island, and the rescuers despaired, because they knew if the oil hit, it would not be possible to rescue any more oiled birds.

26. Blowouts are a particular hazard offshore because not only are they a danger to life and limb but, in the case of any oil blowout, they also generate an oil slick and much unfavourable publicity

27. The oil slick may be particularly obvious because it is occurring in the sunglint area,[Sentence dictionary] where the mirror-like reflection of the Sun off the water gives the Gulf of Mexico a washed-out look.

28. - availability of the required coastline-protection resources (oil slick containment equipment, oil absorbants or precipitating agents, gels enabling dispersants to be used on rocks or structures, aerator-agitator and recovery equipment for use in shallow waters and beach-cleaning equipment).