Despite his upraised arm, with its folds of cloth, he could sense the thickness of the oily cloud about him.

The blinding fire of him dissipated, becoming a foul, oily cloud.

There appeared to be a fire inside the damaged spacecraft as evidenced by the thick, oily black clouds of smoke.

The shapeless, oily cloud hovered over her.

They're calling this an oil spill in the sky," she says, "because when you stand under those smoky, oily clouds, it isn't long until you find your skin speckled with oil like a fine mist, like rain.

The oily black clouds of smoke produced from these smudge pots was intended to limit the ability to locate a target.

Sometimes, I also wonder whether I was secretly glad to be escaping the danger that hung around the dojo like a heavy, oily cloud of vapor, invisible but real for all that.

The roar choked and caught and the back bumper eased out of the muck, sending an oily gray cloud of exhaust into the still, dank air.

In his place was a great oily cloud which swelled and dispersed.

A huge, oily cloud of fire climbed over the elms in Courthouse Park, lighting the duck pond and the Little League diamond in scarlet.