How to Use ointment in a Sentence

ointment

noun

• You should put some ointment on that cut.
• Let’s let there still be the fly in the ointment there.
  — Max Gao, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
• Don’t flush the eye out with water or try to put ointment on it.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• But Bertuzzi is more than just a fly in the ointment near the crease.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• There’s one teensy fly in the ointment that might be an agent of chaos.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• 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 a kitchen full of strangers, keep the gauze, burn ointment and paramedics on standby.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2021
• And Massie's not done being a fly in the ointment.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
• It can be rubbed on the skin as an ointment or digested in food.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
• However, heart balm is not an ointment or a salve, or even a balm.
  — Matt Jones, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2016
• There are some flies in the ointment, as with almost anything.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2022
• Bieber happens to agree and uses the ointment to stave off crusty, dry lips.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 28 June 2024
• Bieber happens to agree and uses the ointment to stave off crusty, dry lips.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 16 July 2024
• That might be why Bieber uses the ointment to stave off crusty, dry lips.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 29 Nov. 2024
• Aquaphor also works as a first aid ointment if your child gets a minor cut or scrape.
  — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 27 Feb. 2024
• These ointments can ease coughing, open nasal passages, and soothe a sore throat.
  — Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 11 June 2024
• The ointment is closer to 80% oil.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• The only fly in the ointment is that the stock has risen 290%.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• Do not use creams and ointments with a lot of alcohol and water.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 14 Nov. 2023
• Some of you may have cleverly noticed the fly in the ointment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• Baffert said the horse was being treated with an ointment for a rash.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• In the evening, use the ointment and apply it to your underarms.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Apply a joint ointment, designed to ease minor aches and pains, to your joints.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• But these same qualities, which all go back to the goopy texture, make ointments a pain to use.
  — Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
• Beyond the range of grease and ointments, the rules were straightforward.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• The fly in the ointment of it all comes from the other love planet, your co-ruler Mars.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• In 1919 the third artist—who some might call the fly in the ointment—arrived.
  — Alexandra Bregman, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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