Example sentences for: viscous

How can you use “viscous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Writing recently in The New Yorker , Calvin Tompkins complained that the 1980s paintings lacked the "messy viscous slathers of pigment, the turbulence and turmoil, ...

  • Yet nothingabout the frontier's fenced compoundssuggests the traveller en route elsewhereshould stop--even if stepping on the gascan't do much toward cancelling those pictures,the color of pain, a visual undersong ...Once coppergreen expanses of waterslide into view, though, no one could failto sense the difference in beingbelow sea level--air heavyin the ear, oxygen-rich, cool, dry,scented with desert, and holy enough.A hand dipped in water pondersthe viscous feel of minerals in solution,and little tumuli of salts and carbonatesbuild a submarine city sprawlingfor miles under the hammered-metal surface.On a shore hazed with distance, neat rowsof date palms identify themselveswith a green herringbone frond and ripen foodstuffs for, say, the heavenly banquet.Ritual ablution even so has coatedyour skin with a pale silt glove;and sea and desert are one.

  • For some reason nearly every kids' toothpaste (Colgate Barney, Oral-B Rugrats) is a viscous gel--especially perplexing since thick gels are ineradicable when smeared across a sink top.

  • I ask you, can there be any food one wants less in the middle of a long jog than yogurt, only more viscous?

  • The rice was undercooked, and the sauce was a viscous, grainy gel.


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