How to Use ointment in a Sentence

ointment

noun

• You should put some ointment on that cut.
• But Bertuzzi is more than just a fly in the ointment near the crease.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• Do not use creams and ointments with a lot of alcohol and water.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 14 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Apply a joint ointment, designed to ease minor aches and pains, to your joints.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• The fly in the ointment is the potential return of showers on Sunday.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• In the case of Woolley’s ointment, goose dung won’t fight cancer, but celandine extract might.
  — Olivia Campbell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2021
• Neosporin helped reduce the risk of infection, and Terrasil ointment soothed the pain.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• Protect the burn by washing with soap and water, but no ointments.
  — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• Jasper, with his greasy long hair and scuzzy mug and brash instincts, is the veteran too smart to fool, the fly in every ointment.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• The relaxing effects of the ointment are enhanced by the addition of 500mg of hemp to each jar.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
• As far as treatment goes, OTC ointments or creams for yeast infections should do the trick.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 20 June 2023
• Laura Kipnis likes to be a cage rattler, a fly in the ointment, a poker of hornet’s nests.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• These ointments may have been intended to conserve the bodies, per the statement.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
• Alongside the bones, researchers found glass ointment or perfume jars, as well as a strigil—a small metal tool ancient Greeks and Romans used to scrape their skin clean.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024