Example Sentences

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The garnet would otherwise have creeped viscously to compensate for the change in volume in the SiO2 inclusions, instead of forming cracks.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023

Following a tournament opening loss to France Sunday, the U.S. responded swiftly and viscously against a seriously undermanned Iranian team, beating them 120-66.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2021

And this applies, not only to a fluid, but to a body which will yield viscously to an impressed force.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

The downward movement viscously slowed; then the metal, suddenly alive with the capacity to defy gravity, circled upward.

From The Junkmakers by Teichner, Albert