deliquescent

Example Sentences

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That was sitting out there, in a state of just deliquescing.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

Some have recognizable faces, even painted ones; others appear to be deliquescing into formlessness, their arms and torsos stuck together like tallow.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2018

The mood is loosened, people starting to mingle like deliquescing particles.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2017

These trips, the author writes, “keep his body from deliquescing at a faster rate than it already was.”

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2013

The house was fluttering with fans; most of the spectators and actors felt as though they were slowly deliquescing in perspiration, but, on the whole, the audience seemed to be enjoying it.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend