How to Use viscosity in a Sentence

viscosity

noun

• The soup smacks of pork and chile, with a rich viscosity that will cling to the bottom of the bowl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Check the viscosity of the sauce and swirl in more slurry if needed.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
• In 2018, the viscosity of the lava on Kīlauea kept changing.
  — Robin George Andrews, Wired, 6 June 2021
• Matcha thickens the viscosity of ice cream bases and milk ice in Taiwanese shaved ice cones.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
• Think of its final viscosity as about like duck sauce or Thai sweet chili sauce.
  — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The peas and carrots had a bright color with perfect viscosity and no chunks or pulp.
  — Laura Denby, Parents, 29 Feb. 2024
• Take care not to boil the liquid, and cook until the tendons are very soft and the braising liquid has a syrup-like viscosity.
  — Jamie Feldmar, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• Its viscosity can change from person to person and even hour to hour.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
• This is almost certainly the most ridiculous dish I’ve ever been served, down to the weird viscosity of the paints.
  — Besha Rodell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• Even the whey left over from making yogurt or mozzarella can add a touch of viscosity and acid to a drink or dish.
  — Patrick Symmes, Bon Appétit, 18 May 2021
• And, in fact, the viscosity of the liquid had nothing to do with that base ingredient.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Holi Oobleck Oobleck is a fun science project that teaches about viscosity and force.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
• The salty liquid released from the carrots will mix with the lemon juice and tomato paste to create the perfect viscosity to coat the carrots.
  — Zaynab Issa, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2022
• The reason has to do with the wettability of the container and the viscosity of the substance.
  — H. Joachim Schlichting, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2021
• Roman and colleagues says that the viscosity of magma can change over time.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2021
• Lopez had been on blood thinners, but the coronavirus increases the viscosity of the blood.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• My teeth sink through the familiar viscosity of melty cheese.
  — Kate McAuley, Bon Appétit, 29 Dec. 2021
• On the palate, the bourbon has a slightly oily texture, with a medium viscosity and a mouth coating texture.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• As the bottle empties, the viscosity decreases because there is less and less ketchup to push.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2022
• In this expression, η (Greek letter eta) is the viscosity of the medium, r is the radius of the drop, and v is its velocity.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• Deblais and colleagues put a blob of these sludge worms into a special device to measure the viscosity of the liquid around them.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
• There was more viscosity and body to this spirit, which gave it an almost syrup-like quality.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2022
• Not to mention, when that time of the month rolls around, the oil beneath your skin changes consistency from an olive oil type of thickness to a honey-like viscosity.
  — Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
• This is a smooth, creamy, mouth coating vodka with a noticeable palate weight and viscosity.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Also, when the researchers changed the viscosity of the fluid, there was no significant impact on how many bubbles broke in the CBC.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2019
• When Katz and Pavlovic tried to extend their process to a toy version of the Navier-Stokes equations, the fluid’s viscosity snuffed out this thinned-out energy and no blowup occurred.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2014
• So a common way to look for a quark-gluon plasma is to look for evidence of flow without viscosity.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
• Seedlip is delicious, has good viscosity, and adds a great flavor to any cocktail.
  — Hannah Rimm, refinery29.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Rather than using the more common simple syrup in the three-ingredient drink, caster sugar, a finely ground sugar, was used instead, which reduced the drinks viscosity and let the base spirit shine.
  — Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2024
• This natural component in the body has a host of jobs – from cushioning joints to helping sustain elasticity and viscosity of extracellular substances.
  — New Atlas, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024