FLOW in a Sentence

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For FLOW, below is one of 242 sentences:
Considering that most of your clothes are polyester or cotton blends, the off flow lint is a good fire ignition source.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flow
 v.  move along in a stream
 n.  a steady, continuous stream of something
Classic Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
1  Leaning, silent, sardonic, against the door he was like a withered willow, bent over a stream, all its leaves shed, and in his eyes the whimsical flow of the waters.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
2  His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Their interests had never ceased to flow together over his work.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  They didn't get on so well without her; their ideas didn't flow so freely.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  If you were young, you just set your teeth, and bit on and held on, till the money began to flow from the invisible; it was a question of power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  Then the flow ceased, and he turned on the loudspeaker, and became a blank, while apparently his schemes coiled on inside him like a kind of dream.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  And the fluid, male knowledge of herself seemed to flow to her from his eyes and wrap her voluptuously.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
9  Sir Thomas did not know what was wanting, because, though a truly anxious father, he was not outwardly affectionate, and the reserve of his manner repressed all the flow of their spirits before him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  But his intention, the kindness of his intention, was thankfully acknowledged: quite thankfully and warmly, for she was elevated beyond the common timidity of her mind by the flow of her love for William.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  She was happy even when they did take place; but not from any flow of spirits on his side, or any such expressions of tender gallantry as had blessed the morning.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  It is not necessary to make any guesses on the subject, however; for the sudden entrance of the two young ladies whom Oliver had seen on a former occasion, caused the conversation to flow afresh.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  You may depend upon it,' said Giles, 'that that gate stopped the flow of the excitement.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  An ingenuous, transparent life was disclosed, as if the flow of her existence could be seen passing within her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
15  I saw a richer green flow up the hill-side, and remain there, without any wintry intermission.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  Diets that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol tend to clog up our arteries, thereby reducing the blood flow to our hearts and brains.
17  We hope that the debate on this issue will continue to flow.
18  The rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy through a given surface.
19  A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a mainstream river, and which does not flow directly into a sea.
20  Spatial interaction is a dynamic flow process from one location to another.
21  Above their homes, a burning flow of liquid rock has been pushing up from deep in the volcano, sending pieces of lava, tumbling down a gully on the south-east side.
22  Considering that most of your clothes are polyester or cotton blends, the off flow lint is a good fire ignition source.
23  The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between snowdrift and wind flow.
24  The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kayak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company.
25  Suddenly the minister shouted at the top of his voice: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow -- SING! -- and put your hearts in it!" And they did.
26  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
27  Spanish authorities have prevented a major ecological disaster by diverting a flow of toxic spill away from one of Europe's leading national parks.
28  His first problem involved the study, by flow techniques, of free radicals produced in gaseous photochemical reactions.
29  It's a bizarre concept that Alaskan volcanoes were screwing up the Nile watershed, causing the flow of one of the world's mightiest rivers to slow.
30  The road of life is like a large river,because of the power of the currents,river courses appear unexpectedly where there is no flowing water.