FLUX in a Sentence

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For FLUX, below is one of 8 sentences:
She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of her mood was carrying her toward Lawrence Selden.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLUX
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flux
 n.  flowing; series of changes; state of being liquid through heat
Classic Sentence:
1  On the brink of departure she was always seized with a flux of words.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  As for dysentery--the "bloody flux" as the ladies delicately called it--it seemed to have spared no one from private to general.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of her mood was carrying her toward Lawrence Selden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  Both quantum mechanics and chaos theory suggest a world constantly in flux.
2  The education system is still in a state of flux following the recent reform.
3  Things have been in a state of flux since father's death.
4  While conditions are in such a state of flux, I do not wish to commit myself too deeply in this affair.