FLOW in a Sentence

Learn FLOW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for FLOW, such as:
1. Only dead fish follow the flow.
2. All rivers in the end flow to the sea.
3. She tried to stop the flow of blood from the wound.
4. We expect a rise in both our production and our cash flow.
5. Stream flow, slowly away a few leaf, also taking the memory.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FLOW
flow
 v.  cause to flow
 n.  the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
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)
1  Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
2  Massage may help to increase blood flow to specific areas of the body.
3  She tried to stop the flow of blood from the wound.
4  She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
5  We expect a rise in both our production and our cash flow.
6  Only dead fish follow the flow.
7  He has squared the circle of keeping the City happy and doing something to improve business cash flow.
8  Any investment in shares is a bet on an unknowable future flow of profits.
9  Stream flow, slowly away a few leaf, also taking the memory.
10  There's a channel in the middle of the old street to help rainwater flow away.
11  He had known her long enough to recognize the ebb and flow of her moods.
12  Large numbers of refugees continue to flow from the troubled region into the no-man's land.
13  It follows that a flow activity is one which provides optimal challenges in relation to the actor's skills.
14  All rivers in the end flow to the sea.
15  The current structure does not facilitate efficient work flow.