The bubbles then rest within a viscous fluid encased in a tough, flexible membrane. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
He can't understand the word viscous in viscous turd. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
The baba ghanouj was actually tasty but overly pureed so it slid through my fork in viscous dribbles. From Wordnik.com. [Bread & Olive Redux | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
As unappealing as such things are to me, it's more ... a fear of being choked, of drowing in viscous substances. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Has to do with warming the fluid in what's called a viscous clutch mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com Weather News] Reference
Instead of resonating, sound waves plunge into the channels and dissipate through a process called viscous shear. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A kind of viscous battle is some kind of battle, you bet. From Wordnik.com. [Texas, Our Texas | clusterflock] Reference
Toss me a pretty book and observe as my resolve turns to a kind of viscous goo. From Wordnik.com. [Review of the Day: Ms. Rubinstein's Beauty] Reference
Must thank you for those words on lubricants especially "viscous" and "unctuous". From Wordnik.com. [Ups and Downs: More Bikes, Less Hope] Reference
The first matter of minerals is a kind of viscous water, mingled with pure and impure earth. From Wordnik.com. [Bygone Beliefs] Reference
This term may arise from the same Latin root that gives us "viscous," implying that the organs are soft and sticky. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
I'll work "viscous" into my next description of creepy Republicans ... promise!. From Wordnik.com. [BlueOregon] Reference
The sides were plastered with a kind of viscous clay found in one of the ponds, and the top covered with tufts of the purple saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1] Reference
The newer ones leached viscous blood onto his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Deadheading] Reference
That a thick, viscous, red matter fell at Ulm, in 1812. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
These vegetable oils are treated with lye to make them more viscous. From Wordnik.com. [Diesel: A cleaner option?] Reference
Matt nodded, and pointed to the viscous deposit in the dome of the bell. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
A viscous liquid called glycol borate -- "gu" -- instead of distilled water. From Wordnik.com. [The Transistor] Reference
The bad news is that the oil is as waxy and viscous as shoe polish in a can. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Find In Uganda Cause For Hope, Caution] Reference
Shaking its body, the velociraptor sprayed viscous blood in every direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Divide] Reference
The same is true of all viscous substances, as starch and glue; and so of oil. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
A viscous precipitate forms which frequently loses its viscosity when heat is applied. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
A living figure of mud spat out a mouthful of that viscous substance in order to answer. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
The progress of the operation is tested by examining the balsam as to its viscous properties. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
A stream of thick, viscous lava flowed slowly out of an opening at the southern base of Cinder Cone. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
The pericarp is impregnated with a white viscous fluid, which adheres very tenaciously to the fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Like being underwater, except that the medium around you isn't so dense and viscous, and you can breathe. From Wordnik.com. [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference
Something began to drip form its mouth, thick, viscous liquid that pooled between its spread front legs. From Wordnik.com. [Inner City] Reference
Large viscous bubbles are continually rising to the top, and on bursting they emit a fetid, sulphureous smell. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
At his feet lapped black, thick-looking waves of an underground lake, a pool of viscous substance that gave off. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast of Space] Reference
The linseed oil loses its acrid elements by volatilization, and gradually becomes thick and viscous, the various. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
They are damned in that they are doomed — doomed, many of them, to wear viscous brown cowls of oil until they die. From Wordnik.com. [Pick of the day: Pants v. Pelicans] Reference
Yellow-green blisters form on the sides of the bizarre creatures, grow until they rupture, and release viscous fluid. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference
Every now and then bubbles of gas or steam come to the surface and exploding send long threads of viscous lava into the air. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
All the sharks were gone now except for one, which was swimming as if drunk in the pool of viscous purple and red. From Wordnik.com. [My Lucky Tooth] Reference
The shattered femur must have perforated an artery, for blood streamed from the wound and a viscous pool accumulated around the boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Between Them] Reference
What better way to capture the visual truth of a situation, he reasoned, than to capture the genuine viscous article to use as medium?. From Wordnik.com. [WORKING IN OILS: Pulitzer winner STEVE BREEN visits Gulf to create 'spill' cartoons out of BP's own crude] Reference
What better way to capture the visual truth of a situation, he reasoned, than to capture the genuine viscous article to use as a medium?. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoonist Steve Breen has crude response to gulf oil spill] Reference
Besides the tree roots, flinty anthracite, and viscous bitumen that darkened the island's soil, the workers began hitting pockets of bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Unnatural History of Brown's Island] Reference
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