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
- The oil slick is now 35 miles long.
- The oil slick contaminated about three kilometres of waterway killing about 150 sticklebacks - small fish renowned for being tolerant to pollution - a seagull and a duck.
- An oil slick surrounds the damaged carrier as an inflatable life raft deploys off her stern.
- The oil slick in the Persian Gulf seriously threatened the marine life around the sea.
- The guy you'll see in those pix is Steeltip, a character that uses archery not only to attack but to fire "trick arrows," like flashbangs to disorient, poison gas clouds, splashes of acid to degrade armor, and oil slicks to trip up his enemies. Friday Pix
- The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
- (CNN) - As thousands of barrels of oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, and a massive oil slick approaches the Louisiana coast, Sarah Palin weighed in on the environmental nightmare. Controversial Arizona sheriff considers run for governor's seat
- Oil slicks, overhead cables and pollution are all death traps for birds.
- The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
- He said oil slicks from the stricken leviathan still sometimes marred the bay.