How to Use ointment in a Sentence

ointment

noun

• You should put some ointment on that cut.
• The only fly in the ointment is that the stock has risen 290%.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• But Bertuzzi is more than just a fly in the ointment near the crease.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• In 1919 the third artist—who some might call the fly in the ointment—arrived.
  — Alexandra Bregman, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The fly in the ointment here of course is the president.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• In a kitchen full of strangers, keep the gauze, burn ointment and paramedics on standby.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2021
• The only fly in the ointment will be the strong SSW winds that could gust up close to 30mph at times.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• There’s one teensy fly in the ointment that might be an agent of chaos.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• The fly in the ointment of it all comes from the other love planet, your co-ruler Mars.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Don’t flush the eye out with water or try to put ointment on it.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• The only fly in the ointment was the sheer number of pot shots and long-range strikes the Brazilian took.
  — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The mask smelled like piney ointment and pushed his breath back at him, hot and rotten.
  — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In the evening, use the ointment and apply it to your underarms.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Bieber happens to agree and uses the ointment to stave off crusty, dry lips.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 16 July 2024
• Some of you may have cleverly noticed the fly in the ointment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• It can be rubbed on the skin as an ointment or digested in food.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
• Just make sure to care for your tattoo and apply the A&D ointment with clean hands each time.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 9 July 2018
• There are some flies in the ointment, as with almost anything.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2022
• But Bruce is not allowed any fly-in-the-ointment heroics.
  — Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• What is glamorous, however, is the way the ointment-turned-balm makes my lips look and feel.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 10 Mar. 2023
• There’s already a fly in the ointment, though: the EPA rates the Taycan’s range on a charge at a very pedestrian 201 miles.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2020
• The only fly in the ointment would be the strong southerly winds, gusting up close to 30mph through the afternoon.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
• Do not use creams and ointments with a lot of alcohol and water.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 14 Nov. 2023
• Don’t use eye drops or ointments. Don’t take over-the-counter pain relievers on the way to the emergency room.
  — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• Aquaphor also works as a first aid ointment if your child gets a minor cut or scrape.
  — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 27 Feb. 2024
• Baffert said the horse was being treated with an ointment for a rash.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• These ointments can ease coughing, open nasal passages, and soothe a sore throat.
  — Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 11 June 2024
• Mumtaz had to wait nearly two hours to be seen by the doctor, who prescribed an ointment for the rash.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The smell of wet asphalt, the weeds growing on the shore, the wounds on the gums, the old songs, the figs, the sweat, the saltpeter and the silences will be the ingredients of the ointment that will cure the illness.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
• But there’s a fly in the ointment: the marquee feature of Apple Intelligence will only work with two current iPhones.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024