FLUID in a Sentence

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For FLUID, below is one of 32 sentences:
The men scampered in insane fever of haste, racing as if to achieve a sudden success before an exhilarating fluid should leave them.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLUID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fluid
 a.  in cash or easily convertible to cash
 n.  a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  In her fluid thought certain convictions appeared, jaggedly, a fragment of an impression at a time, while she was going to sleep, or manicuring her nails, or waiting for Kennicott.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  But the fine and delicate fluid extracted from his jaws is exceedingly valuable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
4  Clear old prime Nantucket water; which, when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from the Peruvian or Indian streams.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
6  He burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore, unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral contrivances ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
7  His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
8  The men scampered in insane fever of haste, racing as if to achieve a sudden success before an exhilarating fluid should leave them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
9  As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
10  The dream hand clenched; the real hand lay on the chair arm, the veins swollen but only with a brownish fluid now.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  She advanced, sidling, as if the floor were fluid under her shabby garden shoes, and, advancing, pursed her lips and smiled, sidelong, at her brother.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
12  She took the little silver cream jug and let the smooth fluid curl luxuriously into her coffee, to which she added a shovel full of brown sugar candy.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
13  Only Bond the cowman looked fluid and natural.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
14  Yes, they barred the music, and massed and hoarded; and prevented what was fluid from overflowing.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
2  Well, we have not enough fluid capital.
3  Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
4  I think we should try and keep our arrangements fluid at this stage.
5  Many people with heart problems suffer from fluid retention.
6  The rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy through a given surface.
7  Air is a fluid but not a liquid, while water is both a fluid and a liquid.
8  The higher velocity fluid around the core of the vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating farther away.
9  We present a simple and rapid implementation of a fluid dynamics solver for game.
10  She lived in near-poverty and spent her time wiping dirt and various body fluids from half-dead cancer and leprosy victims.
11  The main cause is not having enough fluids in your body to keep your core temperature down.
12  She's on complete bed rest, antibiotics and plenty of fluids.
13  The doctor told him to drink plenty of fluids.