How to Use flow in a Sentence
- She opened the faucet and the water began to flow freely.
- The grain flowed smoothly down the elevator chute.
- Requests have flowed into the office.
- Traffic has been flowing smoothly from east to west.
- Money has continued to flow in.
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This stuff just flowed out of him.
—Jessica Booth, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
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The cross still stands, the blood still flows.
—Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
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The point was not to flow—not right now.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
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There's a feel and flow for how the show is done.
—ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
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The blood flowed steady for 75 yards.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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When the core premise is sound, the rest flows from there.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Her tears began to flow in earnest.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
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The blood flowed alongside her milk.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
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Points will not flow between the two-tiers.
—Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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Outdoor air must flow freely through the space.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
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How do the paragraphs flow from one to the next.
—Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
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Hole after hole, putts dropped and swings flowed.
—Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
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The finest champagne flowed freely.
—Erhan Kaya, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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How much water has flowed in over the past three weeks?
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Over the years, the brand's cachet has ebbed and flowed.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
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Like last week, her loose curls are flowing down to her waist.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
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His new team do not flow through him as the old one often did.
—Andy Jones, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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The bias cut of the dress gave way to a long, flowing maxiskirt.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
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But the red ink flowed along with the Birch Beer.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
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The rest was all flowing robes and harem pants and scarves, at least two.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
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The lengths were styled straight and worn long, flowing down to mid-back.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Jan. 2026
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Your brain needs to be flowing like a freeway.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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There is a river flowing now very fast.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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This will keep water flowing through most of the house.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
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The gas keeps flowing steadily for a decade or more.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
- The doctor was trying to stop the flow of blood.
- We want to encourage the free flow of ideas.
- We've been receiving a constant flow of phone calls.
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This will help with the down flow.
—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
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Do your best to go with the flow.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
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None of which stops the flow of ideas.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
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For the rivers within us flow with ease.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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That boosts oxygen and blood flow to the brain.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
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About 20% of the world’s oil flows through the strait.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
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This, in turn, will whittle stream flows.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
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We’re stuck with it, though, so might as well go with the pterosaur flow.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
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Blood clots can block blood flow and lead to heart attack and stroke.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
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And – and so that's the key thing, is to restore that flow.
—CBS News, 4 May 2026
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The goal is to ensure a free flow of movement.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
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But the flow is not just in one direction.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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These imbalances blocked the flow of air to the brain.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
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Go with the flow and trust your intuition.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
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Which menstrual cup for a heavy flow is best?
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
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The firms that win the next decade of buy & build won’t just be those with the best deal flow.
—Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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That flow builds up pressure strong enough to spin a turbine.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
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Is not seeing eye-to-eye killing the artistic flow?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
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So far, there are no signs that the flow of money is slowing.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
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It shifts and flows, and presses ever down.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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His flow here is just as libidinous.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
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Even in chat or calls, people go through ridiculous flows.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
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The rapid news flow has given investors whiplash.
—Annika Kim Constantino,elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026
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Then the flow of homes hitting the market ground to a near-halt.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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Their offensive flow grinds to a halt.
—Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 12 May 2026
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Trying to imagine the flow chart for it all kind of cooks my brain.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
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Zoey is the adorable, cute maknae who has the most seamless rap flow.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
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