Ointment used in a sentence

Ointment in a sentence as a noun

As nice as this is, there's a fly in the ointment.

Of course, the fly in the ointment is that politics at the national level can't really be run this way...

It would be convenient if they didn't, but the fact of the matter is that Apple is likely to be the real fly in the ointment.

No amount of "Agile" brand ointment can miraculously turn a rag-tag team of goof offs into a well oiled development crew.

The only fly in this sales-technique ointment are the customers whom you convince, then in-turn expect the world from you because they chose "value" over "price".

Amdahl, various concerns raised by physical distribution present the proverbial hair in the ointment:- CAP applies.

The cop solicited bribe from driver because the first-aid kit had a partially used tube of ointment and some passengers were hanging newspapers and shawls on windows to block out sunlight.

The fly in the ointment that I see is that if shareholders become disillusioned and decide to return Amazon stock to a more reasonable valuation, alot of things could come apart in a company which bases a significant portion of its employee compensation on stock/stock options, as Amazon does.