Flow

//fləʊ//

"Flow" in a Sentence (41 examples)

There is a constant flow of traffic on this road.

Do something about the flow of blood from the wound.

Stop the flow of blood from the wound.

They blocked the flow of water from the burst pipe.

There was a sudden flow of tears from her eyes.

An endless flow of tears fell from her eyes.

Foreign trade consists of a two-way flow of commodities: export and import.

Quickly stop the flow of milk, leave to stand for approximately 30 minutes for the milk to solidify.

We are interested in the flow of evacuation events from the occurrence of a large earthquake to the conclusion of emergency countermeasures.

Noise is produced by the sudden flow of current into a solenoid.

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Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.

The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.

Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.

Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.

The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance.

Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.

The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.

Now shawty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' my flow […] / My flow, my show brought me the dough / That bought me all my fancy things

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I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signup flow, and I'm wondering [...]

Rivers flow from springs and lakes.

Tears flow from the eyes.

Wrex: I need to get my blood flowing. Find me something to kill!

Wealth flows from industry and economy.

Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.

Virgil […] is […]sweet and flowing in his hexameters.

[…] in that day[…] the hils shall flow with milke[…]

the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl

a flowing mantle

flowing locks

[…]the imperial purple flowing in his train.

The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.

The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing.

[…] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.

Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow

Had been roughly laid with bog-wood dug from the flowes,

Dandering o'er ferney knowes, [...] Springing o'er bogs an' flowes, [...]

If dey wirna a day apo' da flow dan he [it] wis nae man's bishaness.

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