Now fish is oil-soaked and parent most likely dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: BP's Oiled Pelicans: "They Look Like Dead Angels in the Sand"] Reference

We saw plenty of freshly oil-soaked grass and beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary's Parish, LA] Reference

The sight of oil-soaked brown pelicans is now common.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP poised for 'top kill' to try to plug spill; final decision to come Wednesday] Reference

Fish and Wildlife Service, which rescues oil-soaked birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Oil Spill: Cleanup Has Cost Federal Taxpayers $87 Million So Far] Reference

Turns out the plane was just the tip of an oil-soaked iceberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Marshall: Other Items Listed by Sarah Palin on eBay] Reference

Workers gather oil-soaked algae on the beach in Gulfport, Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Regulator Draws Criticism in Congress on Oversight] Reference

"That Twaddles might have taken off his oil-soaked suit," replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island] Reference

PHILLIPS: Exhausted volunteers, slick, smelly oil-soaked beaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007] Reference

This can be checked by throwing an oil-soaked rag into the firebox.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Kilns] Reference

The oil-soaked padding flared immediately, and he stood up and aimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

That set off everybody in the tavern, like a torch flung into oil-soaked wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

This is far too easy, and you are playing with matches and oil-soaked rags here.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Birds (Sanccob) on Tuesday to aid efforts to rescue and clean oil-soaked penguins.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Pile the wood and oil-soaked rags along the walls on either side of the main gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

I asked Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Chris Lee about all the oil-soaked boom we saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booms Delay The Inevitable; Cleanup Efforts Struggle] Reference

In oil-soaked Grand Isle, Jason French might as well have painted a bulls-eye on his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap Placed Atop Gulf Well; Oil Still Spews] Reference

Initially the burner is heated by placing an oil-soaked rag or sawdust inside the cylinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Kilns] Reference

With trembling hands both teams reached for the oil-soaked rags, which were balled by net wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

There were, and still are, no Iraqi people on this patch of desirable, oil-soaked, desert sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Horton: The invisible men] Reference

At least 30 oil-soaked penguins were spotted on Jutten Island, but there was minimal contamination.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Preservation Society had planted one of their oil-soaked sidings there like an obscene graffito.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

An oil-soaked goose tries to wipe oil from its feathers by a pond in Liberty Park in Salt Lake City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chevron Pipeline Leaks Crude Into Utah Creek] Reference

Kurds believe the oil-soaked northern city should be part of their largely autonomous Kurdistan Region.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Done Deal] Reference

In recent weeks, against a news backdrop of oil-soaked pelicans, President Obama has been talking tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Turse: How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon] Reference

This doesn't sound he's talking about a peaceful nuclear alternative energy source in his oil-soaked nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Dershowitz: British Intelligence Is Smarter Than Ours -- and Than Gary Hart] Reference

She turned and nodded to the Maces who had wrapped oil-soaked cloths around the heads of their crossbow bolts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veiled Dragon]

The death of the climate bill yesterday struck the Climateers like a wet, oil-soaked dead dolphin to the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Nelder: Beyond Carbon Legislation: Energy Transition] Reference

After oil spills into the lake at Bayside High, the image of the Zach's oil-soaked pet duck is all too familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Bell: Epic Drama Meets 'Saved By The Bell' Oil Spill Episode (VIDEO)] Reference

Now you want to give them a pass as they grease the pads for one more before they step into oil-soaked retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [America: Are You F**king Brain Dead?!] Reference

Images of oil-soaked birds and rubber-boot-clad workers cleaning rocks captured the public's imagination for weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exxon Oil-Spill Damages] Reference

Wildlife officials tried to rescue oil-soaked pelicans Sunday, but they suspended their efforts after spooking the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP: Mile-Long Tube Collecting Less Oil Than Before; Obama Administration Officials Dispatched To Gulf] Reference

Included in this cost was the R450000 that SANCCOB had spent on rescuing oil-soaked penguins, id irply to a question from Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

To start, the two men pour oil into two large pans of water, stir in the hay, add a little "wave action," then skim off the oil-soaked hay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexia Parks: The Gulf Oil Spill Needs a Hero] Reference