Example Sentences

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Glaciers may look like solid, unchanging masses, but in fact, they are constantly in motion: sliding across the terrain; deforming under their own weight; flowing, syrup-like, down valleys.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Take care not to boil the liquid, and cook until the tendons are very soft and the braising liquid has a syrup-like viscosity.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Her patients included soldiers wounded on the beaches in Normandy and her family said she was "probably the second person to save someone's life with an injection of the new, dark yellow, syrup-like penicillin."

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2018

It is already used as an antifreeze in some industries such as food production, but its viscous, syrup-like consistency makes it unsuitable for widespread use.

From Scientific American • Mar. 27, 2015

When it begins to burn and smoke, add hastily a cup of boiling water, stir and cook until a thin syrup-like mixture is formed.

From Made-Over Dishes by Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston