How to Use outflow in a Sentence

outflow

noun
  • We joined the outflow of fans from the stadium after the game.
  • The vents provide improved outflow of air.
  • PacWest saw a sharp outflow of deposits in the first quarter.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 26 July 2023
  • Kavala sits on the Thracian Sea, a region nourished by three large rivers and the outflow of the Black Sea.
    Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But the mass outflow left many broken households in its wake.
    Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Such funds are on track for annual outflows for the first time since 2020.
    WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Still, the outflow of people and money seems to be growing.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 21 July 2022
  • Icebergs would break away, but the ice was replaced by new outflow.
    Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • Local surfers paddled out knowing where the plant’s outflow would warm up the waves.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Above the threshold, the driving force decreases faster than the outflow.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the largest amount since the Bank of England started tracking monthly outflows in 1997.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • The team is not sure why the emission, known as outflow, was delayed by several years.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The idea is that the reservoir will capture at least some of Okeechobee’s toxic outflows instead of sending them to the coasts.
    New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • The net outflow from seven of the top 10 metros was smaller in the fourth quarter than a year earlier.
    Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • San Diego had one of the largest outflows — 2,100 users — which measured the number of home searches from the metro minus the number looking to move here.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Below that threshold, the driving force and liquid outflow are balanced, so the flow is smooth.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Consider the outflow as a share of the state’s population.
    Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Populations no longer can count on enough new babies to counter the steady outflow of young adults.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Yet the move did not appear to be enough to stem an outflow of deposits, according to news reports.
    Jamey Keaten and Ken Sweet, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2023
  • For any large expenses, spread out the outflow of cash over a longer period.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • The [first officer] said her headset was completely removed due to the rapid outflow of air from the flight deck.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Before the last two weeks, equity ETFs hadn't seen a weekly net outflow since June.
    Jack Pitcher, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The outflow is also a lasting side effect from the pandemic.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Other black holes eat stars by feeding off a dense outflow of stellar wind.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 May 2022
  • Mayor Paul Deasy posted videos online of the outflow from the trench along with the sitting water on the street, stopped in front of houses by walls of sandbags.
    Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The net inflow of Grayscale has decreased significantly in the last few days, while the outflows have reached a record high of over $640 million.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The front edge of the air rush – known as an outflow boundary – will scoop up a lot of the dust and dirt on the barren landscape and carry it along, creating what amounts to a dust front.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 July 2022
  • As outflows continue, UBS appears to have trouble on its hands.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The outflow in August also corresponds with a period of rapid weakening of the yuan against the U.S. dollar.
    Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Both rating companies pointed to the risk of deposit outflows.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023

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