Example Sentences

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At worst, we'll have a record of mice and rhinos and fainting goats, our planet's "beautiful flocculence, its beautiful freight", to wonder over in whatever ungreened hell we're careering towards.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2013

Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence.

From Time Magazine Archive

If, through any cause, the air above be chilled, we have descending streams — if the air below be warmed, we have ascending streams as the initial cause of atmospheric flocculence.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

The lake mists felt its beams; dispersed suddenly in silver flocculence; and the path across the blue waters was free for the morning glory that was advancing apace.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

His short hair and beard still clung to his head like curled moss or the crisp flocculence of Astrakhan.

From The Three Partners by Harte, Bret