Word Finder - flowed

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To move as a fluid from one position to another.

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Rivers flow from springs and lakes.

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To proceed; to issue forth.

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Wealth flows from industry and economy.

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To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

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

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To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.

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To hang loosely and wave.

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a flowing mantle; flowing locks

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To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.

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The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

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To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

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To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

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To cover with varnish.

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To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

In her room, the tears flowed freely.

Something blocked the storm and sun sources she'd felt, but the others flowed to her freely.

It was not just his magic, but his soul that flowed into her.

Barren Island was last in eruption in 1803, but there is still a thin column of steam from a sulphur bed at the top and a variable hot spring at the point where the last outburst of lava flowed into the sea.

Molly said as tears flowed.

These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is extant before 1529) and amounted to over 200 in number.

The mountains both in Victoria and New South Wales were snow-capped, and glaciers flowed down their flanks and laid down Carboniferous glacial deposits, which are still preserved in basins that flank the mountain ranges, such as the famous conglomerates of Bacchus Marsh, Heathcote and the Loddon valley in Victoria, and cf Branxton and other localities in New South Wales.

St Marylebone was in the manor of Tyburn, which takes name from the Tyburn, a stream which flowed south to the Thames through the centre of the present borough.

Trees are found ' The peculiar bow shape of these western tributaries of the Red river is due to the fact that these streams originally flowed S.E.

After introductions we gathered around the oak table to get acquainted as more beer and wine flowed.

Her chin trembled as guilt flowed over her and she swallowed hard, nodding.

Instincts took her in the direction of the stream, and she reached the top of a shallow ravine in whose valley the stream flowed.

Power flowed from Xander and Jule, through her toward the Other, pinning him against the pillar behind him.

Hot desire flowed through her and was mirrored on his face.

Green power flowed from the souls in the lake, through him and into the gem.

The cuff around her arm warded them off, and they flowed around her instead of through her.

Yully's hands were on Darian's back, and magic flowed from the world around them, through her, combining with his power before he shoved it into the obelisk.

She closed her eyes, ready to die, when a different kind of warmth flowed through her.

In Roman times it flowed, in its lower course, much farther north than at present, along the base of the Euganean hills, and entered the sea at Brondolo.

The Savio is the only other stream of any importance which has always flowed directly into the Adriatic from this side of the Tuscan Apennines.

Byron's description, "[The] immemorial wood Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er," is probably true; but there is no evidence that it was in historic time that this change took place.

The result of trans-border surveys to the north and west of India has been to establish the important geographical fact that it is by two gateways only, one on the north-west and one on the west of India, that the central Asiatic tides of immigration have flowed into the peninsula.

To such fields may be added the yet more complicated problems of those reflex waves which flowed backwards from India into the border highlands.

Other official addresses of the same general tenour flowed in; and even the tribunate showed its docility by proposing that the imperial dignity should be declared hereditary in the family of Bonaparte (3rd of May).

It flowed continuously, though in gradually diminishing quantity, for fifteen months; afterwards the flow became intermittent.

Commerce, the great trade-routes between India and the West that the main stream of riches flowed then as in later centuries.

It is conjectured that at some remote period the Hawash flowed into Tajura Bay and that the present condition of the country is the result of volcanic upheaval.

In such cases the molten rock cannot have been homogeneous, and as it flowed along the ground the different portions of it were drawn out into long parallel streaks.

He also found that, for the same current, the amount of chemical action was independent of the size of the electrodes and proportional to the time that the current flowed.

Attempts to mine the copper followed, and the prospectors and hunters who penetrated northward sent to the Cape reports of the existence of a great river whose waters always flowed.

Great streams of lava flowed from the crater in ancient times.

The Ems once flowed beneath its walls, but is now 2 m.

Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

The chambers were really reservoirs, filled by the water which flowed along their backs.

Besides the four orifices through which water flowed into it there were two other holes about 4 in.

When the World War broke out he secured an enormous share in the war profits which flowed into the coffers of the great industrialists.

From Browne's idea of a holy people, covenanted to walk after Christ's mind and will, all else flowed, as is set forth in his Book which sheweth the life and manners of all true Christians.

Money flowed into the pockets of the farmers.

The bed of the river is sandy and shifting, and it is only by costly engineering works that the main stream has been kept from returning to the more eastern channel, along which it formerly flowed.

For two years after that date a constant stream of squatters with their sheep flowed in from around Sydney and Tasmania to settle in the Port Phillip district, and by 1841 the population of the town had grown to 11,000.

The charter of that colony was drafted under the impression that the Merrimac flowed east for its entire course, but now an investigation was in progress which was to show that its source in Lake Winnepesaukee was several miles north of any of the four settlements in New Hampshire.

When the ice sheets fronted on land sloping southward to the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the drift-laden streams flowed freely away from the ice border; and as the streams, escaping from their subglacial channels, spread in broader channels, they ordinarily could not carry forward all their load; hence they acted not as destructive but as constructive agents, and aggraded their courses.

Loess is widespread in the Mississippi River basin, especially along the larger streams which flowed from the ice.

The pahoehoe has a smooth but billowy or hummooky surface, and is marked by lines which show that it cooled as it flowed.

According to one alternative, which consistently flowed from the psychological idealism of Descartes, as well as from his own monadism, he suggested that bodies are real phenomena; phenomena, because they are aggregates of monads, which derive their unity only from appearing together to our perceptions; real phenomena well founded, because they result from real monads.

Some thought they slid like solids; others that they flowed like liquids; others that they crawled by alternate expansion and contraction, or by alternate freezing and melting; others, again, that they broke and mended.

All agreed that ice flowed as if it were a viscous fluid; and of this apparent viscosity James Thomson offered an independent explanation by the application of pure thermodynamical theory, which Tyndall considered inefficient to account for the facts he observed.

By the close of 1861 wells had been drilled from which 2000 to 3000 barrels flowed in a day without pumping, and the state's yearly output continued to increase until 1891, when it amounted to 31,424,206 barrels.

As the system of impoldering extended, the small sluggish rivers were gradually cut off by dikes from the marshy lands through which they flowed, and by sluices from the waters with which they communicated.

There is evidence that the sea gradually retreated northwards during the deposition of these beds, until at length the Rhine flowed over to England and entered the sea north of Cromer.