How to Use viscous in a Sentence

viscous

adjective

• One of the four is the viscous layer, which is closest to the side of the pool or the wall of the pipe.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2022
• The whiskey is oily and viscous on the palate, with a pronounced weight.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Tim and the others were served the green, viscous brew in small cups.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
• The lion’s tongue was lolling out of its mouth, from which a few drops of viscous blood had spilled to the ground.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• The sweetness spreads across the mid-palate with thick viscous mouthfeel.
  — Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2020
• The formula is thick and viscous, but doesn’t leave any sort of greasy film on your face.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
• The syrup hurricane, viscous and lethal, stalled out over the town of Chewandswallow for three days.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2020
• The seeds from the eggplant spill out and float around the viscous broth, adding a faint crunch. Details: 444 E. Chandler Blvd.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2021
• The viscous matter is pumped up and spread across the ponds to evaporate in the intense desert sun.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2022
• The entourage feasted on pork bits, tilapia, and viscous okra soup.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• It was coated in a viscous white goo, and a black shoelace had been knotted around its neck.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• The result is a mouth feel that’s smooth and viscous versus brittle and coarse.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartzy, 9 Aug. 2019
• The older sister strips to her socks when the viscous mud starts claiming shoes.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• The hottest names in rap (and pop) at the moment each get a chance to do their thing over a viscous beat, and the result is a song that oozes low-key pep.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 5 June 2017
• The thick gravy will drown out any char on the fat rice noodles and engulf the vegetables in its viscous depths.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Full of raisins, dates, brown sugar and licorice, this thick and viscous wine is a good introduction to the style.
  — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• This also lowers the number of flare-ups on the grill because mayo is less viscous than oil.
  — David Kaplan, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• The cakes need no more than a dab of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), dark and viscous, pulling slightly at the spoon.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Sadly, in House of the Dragon, the map has been replaced by what seems to be some very viscous blood seeping over stone.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
• In recent decades, the world’s appetite for the viscous red oil has exploded.
  — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The whisky is viscous and oily, with a pronounced palate weight and rich mouth coating quality.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 May 2022
• There's no doubt that Cocaine Bear hits you with the viscous, violent thrills.
  — Craig D. Lindsey, Chron, 23 Feb. 2023
• At low shear rates, the saliva is very thick and viscous; at high shear rates, the frog saliva becomes thin and liquidy.
  — Alexis Noel and David Hu, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
• Their steep, conical slopes are built by the eruption of viscous lava flows and rock, ash and gas.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
• Some 3,000 gallons of the oil, thick and viscous Bunker C or heavy fuel oil, was contained in a rubber tank.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
• In one of the most visually striking sequences in the film, the Baron emerges naked from a black, viscous bath and rubs his oily hand over his pale, bald head.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Yet these proteins, along with red blood cells (RBCs), can make blood viscous and hard to circulate.
  — Priyanka Runwal, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2020
• With the humidity, the air feels not only hot, but viscous.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• The aggregates that resulted made the fluid more and more viscous and eventually formed a scab.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024
• The viscous, syrupy serum is composed of 60% propolis extract and 2% niacinamide to control surface oils and give skin an otherworldly glow.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024