How to Use inflow in a Sentence

inflow

noun
  • The vents provide improved inflow of air.
  • The campaign has seen a massive inflow of funds in recent months.
  • But the inflow of migrants has slowed and many have started to leave.
    The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Yet each company’s inflows are near record lows.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Key watch items beyond the headline numbers will be net inflows and fee growth.
    Zev Fima,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The decisive change is on the inflow side, not the outflow side.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • These inflows will form the reserve that will back the currency.
    The Economist, 12 July 2019
  • Part of the rationale behind that move was that the large inflows of oil cash will soon be over.
    Jonas O Bergman, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
  • At the other end of the scale Germany saw the largest inflows, of four tonnes.
    Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That mark's the highest daily net inflow in roughly three months.
    WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • Reduced inflows rather than mass selling are the real risk.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But the inflow has caused a rental housing crisis across the state, with too few homes being built.
    Andrew Selsky, The Seattle Times, 2 May 2017
  • The pressure gauge at the main water inflow to the house is within the normal range.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Even a common man is able to access inflow of funds through Mudra.
    Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
  • With the strongest storms, the inflow can be sucked in at 50-60-plus miles per hour.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • The past few years have seen massive inflows into money market funds.
    Gregory Clifford, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Panic selling in many funds caused large inflows for some of the largest broad-market index funds.
    Tanzeel Akhtar, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2020
  • This is one of the reasons that money market funds have seen such tremendous inflows over the last few years.
    Chris Gunster, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • While large inflows usually mean rising home prices, that’s not the case anymore in some of these cities.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 11 June 2023
  • Just as a pond needs inflow from a stream to stay healthy, businesses need new thoughts and ideas in order to survive.
    Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • At the same time, the typical inflow of people coming for new jobs and college fell.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2021
  • That was the highest three-day inflow since the trading link’s launch in 2014.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Earth is no stranger to the inflow of space material, like pieces of comets and asteroids.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Often times, catfish can be found in creeks and at the mouth of creeks where rains have increased inflow and allowed food to wash in.
    Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 16 May 2018
  • On top of that, inflows into equities remain strong.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
  • That brought net inflows for the past three calendar years to $142 billion.
    Simon Constable, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2019
  • Bloomberg has called the inflow a challenge to a 180-year-old way of transferring risk.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • So South Africa relies on portfolio inflows to stocks and bonds.
    The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Today, drought and a lack of water inflows have stripped it of more than 98 percent of its volume.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The goal is to have the inflow and outflow of water remain the same and for the aquifer level to remain constant.
    J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017

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