viscous flow

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Words nearby viscous flow

viscountcy, viscountess, Viscount Melville Sound, viscounty, viscous, viscous flow, Visct., viscus, vise, Visegrad, Viseu

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How to use viscous flow in a sentence

But the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.
‘Galavant’: A Drunken, Horny Musical Fairy Tale|Melissa Leon|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Ebb and flow, checks and balances, the center would hold, et cetera.
A Veteran’s View: NYC Cold War Between Cops and City Hall|Matt Gallagher|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The lies of the government shocked us,” says Fatima, as the tears flow slowly from her eyes and down her cheek.
A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda|Ruth Michaelson|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But before a new tide of tourists can flow from Miami to Havana, Cuba will need to build more runways.
Goodbye, Bahamas. Hello, Havana!|Clive Irving|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Speak to the friends and people you need to root out in life and let that conversation flow.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
And Tom, aware that he winced, was also aware that something in his life congealed and stopped its normal flow.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
The arrows represent the flow of money from each of these four categories to the others.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Its entrance into and exit from banks is a flow, but not a circulation against goods.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
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