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US
/ˈfɫoʊɪŋ/
]
[ UK /flˈəʊɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /flˈəʊɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
ADJECTIVE
-
designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow
a streamlined convertible
How To Use flowing In A Sentence
- To let his brain swell and keep the blood flowing, thereby preventing the damage from worsening, doctors removed virtually the entire left side of his skull, a procedure known as a craniectomy. Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
- It's not possible or desirable to build enough roads for free-flowing traffic. Times, Sunday Times
- They left behind a huge pile of ripped bin bags overflowing with pizza boxes and cans. The Sun
- Rain flowing from the roof is collected in an underground cistern and reused.
- They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Copy What You Like
- Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
- When water levels subside and water stops flowing from the Main Pool, the carp disperse.
- Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
- By night they roost in the gently flowing shallows of the Platte, shin-deep in cool water, or else on sandbars, giving them warning against any predator that might come splashing out.