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flowing

[ floh-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

moving in or as in a stream:
flowing water.
proceeding smoothly or easily; facile:
flowing language.
long, smooth, graceful, and without sudden interruption or change of direction:
flowing lines; flowing gestures.
hanging loosely at full length:
flowing hair.
abounding; having in excess:
a land flowing with milk and honey.

Origin of flowing¹

before 950; Middle English flowynge, Old English flōwende. See flow, -ing ²

This weekend, however, it moves to full operational capacity, with a ChurchKey-esque 50 drafts open and flowing.

On innumerable campuses, students are being harmed by speech-restriction regimes that chill the free flowing of intellectual differences.

Not just love between people but love within your HEART, flowing in all aspects of your life.

Their money, often collected for many years, helps keep the system afloat and benefits flowing to aging baby boomers.

There was money flowing everywhere… there was a lot of corruption around law enforcement.

Hoop skirts of the Civil War era relaxed into flowing, streamlined gowns.

His multinote improvisations were so thick and complex they were almost flowing out of the horn by themselves.

He felt that all her force, like a strong and ardent stream, was flowing into the new channel which he had cut for her.

Therefore, the total circulation exceeds the total flow from and to banks by the amount flowing through "nondepositors."

His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.

Of course, it was the same gallon or two pumped around and around, but clear, flowing water is a sight on Mars.

She was in a loose and, to him, a mysterious white and flowing garment, with sleeves that fell away from her arms like wings.

April 17, 2024axolotl

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