flowing

[ floh-ing ]

/ ˈfloʊ ɪŋ /

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adjective

moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.

proceeding smoothly or easily; facile: flowing language.

long, smooth, graceful, and without sudden interruption or change of direction: flowing lines; flowing gestures.

hanging loosely at full length: flowing hair.

abounding; having in excess: a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Origin of flowing

before 950; Middle English flowynge,Old English flōwende.See flow, -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM flowing

flow·ing·ly, adverbflow·ing·ness, nounself-flowing, adjectiveun·flow·ing, adjective

Words nearby flowing

flower power, flowers of sulfur, flowers of sulphur, flowers of tan, flowery, flowing, flowmeter, flown, flow-on, flow sheet, flowstone

How to use flowing in a sentence

This weekend, however, it moves to full operational capacity, with a ChurchKey-esque 50 drafts open and flowing.
The best things to do in the D.C. area the week of July 29-Aug. 4|Fritz Hahn, Anying Guo, Chris Richards|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
On innumerable campuses, students are being harmed by speech-restriction regimes that chill the free flowing of intellectual differences.
Campus speech rules are hurting students. They deserve recompense — even if it’s just $1.|George Will|March 12, 2021|Washington Post
Not just love between people but love within your HEART, flowing in all aspects of your life.
The Chris Brown vs. Drake Feud Continues: Brown Claims Ex GF Karrueche Tran Cheated with Drizzy|Marlow Stern|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their money, often collected for many years, helps keep the system afloat and benefits flowing to aging baby boomers.
How Immigrants Will Save Social Security|Eleanor Clift|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

There was money flowing everywhere… there was a lot of corruption around law enforcement.
Did Pablo Escobar Frame a Millionaire for Murdering Banana-Shipping Money Launderers?|Jacqui Goddard|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hoop skirts of the Civil War era relaxed into flowing, streamlined gowns.
The Best-Dressed Way to Say Goodbye|Justin Jones|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His multinote improvisations were so thick and complex they were almost flowing out of the horn by themselves.
The Stacks: John Coltrane’s Mighty Musical Quest|Nat Hentoff|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He felt that all her force, like a strong and ardent stream, was flowing into the new channel which he had cut for her.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
Therefore, the total circulation exceeds the total flow from and to banks by the amount flowing through "nondepositors."
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Of course, it was the same gallon or two pumped around and around, but clear, flowing water is a sight on Mars.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
She was in a loose and, to him, a mysterious white and flowing garment, with sleeves that fell away from her arms like wings.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens