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Meanings of viscid in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sticky"
Examples for "sticky"
1
The wagon-covers became sticky in the sun, and rigid in the cold.
2
Likewise, consider a short rappel or tension traverse to circumnavigate sticky problems.
3
That includes the sticky topic of mutual assessments of national financial systems.
4
They asked some really sticky questions about computers and discipline for learning.
5
And you know how to get out of a sticky situation too.
1
His face turned pasty gray in the deep gloom of the cabin.
2
Bassenge turned white; his prominent eyes bulged in his rather pasty face.
3
The gristle in the pasty, of course, is that academics run academia.
4
But here comes the pasty, and I shall relish it wondrous well.
5
Remember when your pasty dad wore that pale green cardigan one Easter?
1
Barry was grinning, the box of gummy bears in his hand forgotten.
2
But as soon as he chews the gummy candy he wants another.
3
I blinked gummy lids and was immediately blinded by the overhead light.
4
The shriveled pages of the book had stuck into a gummy block.
5
Mr. Wendover's gummy lips curved in a grim smile at the recollection.
1
Out on the open water, trailers of mist skimmed the viscous surface.
2
The two appendices whip the viscous secretion of the glands into foam.
3
The material employed in all buildings is originally liquid, or rather viscous.
4
It was like a sea of swirling, spiraling tar, thick and viscous.
5
Silas could almost feel the friction, hear the viscous grumble of digestion.
1
The blood flowed freely and collected on his fingers in glutinous masses.
2
Slowly the glutinous adhesion gave way, and slowly the writing revealed itself.
3
The glutinous or oily exudation that covers them is a brilliant varnish.
4
Puddings, cereals, and other glutinous mixtures are often cooked in this way.
5
The psychic plane was thick with the glutinous effluvia of incomprehensible minds.
1
The ones with that gluey consistency, like the inside of a Pop-Tart.
2
Everywhere in the air and above her body-thosebright, glittering, gluey threads!
3
The sandy ocean floor was warm and gluey under my feet.
4
Supplies arrived regularly, which enabled Grandsk to produce gluey soups, full of margarine.
5
Above the gluey snow it was easier to bank my skis.
1
Practically none of them had been removed from the insoluble mucilaginous covering.
2
These are mucilaginous when unbroken, and afford the taste of bitter almonds.
3
Soft feed and mucilaginous and nourishing drinks should be given during these attacks.
4
The expressed juice was not limpid, but thick, mucilaginous and ropy.
5
The succulent covering of the fruit is soft and slimy, mawkishly sweet, and mucilaginous.
Usage of viscid in English
1
Mirabilis longiflora.-Thestems and both surfaces of the leaves bear viscid hairs.
2
This liquid is rather thick and viscid, but it is boiling furiously.
3
It was the constituency, like viscid grease, which always put Joshua off.
4
The viscid beads of white fire evaporated as they reached Jenny's hips.
5
I saw them falling on the viscid surface of the water.
6
The water coming in at first makes the linseed powder viscid.
7
These viscid threads cool quickly in that chill altitude, and float down again.
8
Neither sweet nor sour and both at once, choking and viscid.
9
All the glands have the same form; their secretion is extremely viscid and acid.
10
He ran through viscid squares of light, sandals thudding, robe flapping about his body.
11
The juice is viscid, and when thickened to dryness, is the German Gum Acacia.
12
He lurched heavily as he sought to drag his feet from the viscid muck.
13
The branches are flexible, black, polished and without leaves, and secrete a viscid fluid.
14
Your view may be correct about abundance of viscid matter, but seems rather improbable.
15
It did not leave blood but a viscid purple smear.
16
The slake-moth ran its hands through the viscid scum that had been its eggs.
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