Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Agricola derived the name fluores from fluo "to flow," and we in turn obtain "fluorite," or "fluorspar," from Agricola.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

The Gr. ναω, fluo, the Gael. nigh, to bathe, to wash, and the Obs.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

From the Sansc. plu, to flow, Lat. pluo and fluo, come Sansc. plavas, flux, Lat. pluvia and fluvius, Gr. πλυνω, lavo, Ang.-Sax. flôwe, flum, Lat. flumen, river, &c.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

From Lat. in, into, and fluo, to flow.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James