NOUN
- a thin film of oil floating on top of water (especially crude oil spilled from a ship)
How To Use oil slick In A Sentence
- Oil slicks, overhead cables and pollution are all death traps for birds.
- As the oil slick from the recent offshore oil rig disaster makes its way to Gulf Coast shores - expected to devastate the precious ecosystem and hurt struggling businesses - the seeds of political fallout for the Obama administration are beginning to sprout. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, May 3, 2010
- Oil slick prompts no-fishing zone Fishermen have introduced a voluntary ban on fishing in the area surrounding the Shetland oil slick.
- The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
- Northerly winds and currents will tend to drive oil slicks towards the spectacular seabird and seal colonies of Cape Terpeniya and Tyulenniy Island.
- There was a sense of urgency today as cleanup workers tried to head off oil slicks before they reached Spanish beaches and the fishing grounds.
- One boat owner who did not take care of a fuel tank leak and was spewing fuel out with his bilge water was turned in by passing boaters who saw a long oil slick coming from his boat.
- The mud then spews under the Gapstow Bridge to become a muddy slough that inundates a good part of The Pond, leaving the rest of The Pond aswirl with oil slicks, sludge, and Dixie cups.
- What looks like oil slicks slither across the surface, multiple colors twisting over each other.
- Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.
