flocculent

Example Sentences

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We pirouetted through methane bubbles and scooped up flocculent microbial samples.

From The New Yorker

The EPA has been building settling ponds to catch and treat the waste water with caustic soda and flocculent, officials said.

From Reuters

Randall got a head start on the others and sports an impressive flocculent dark black mane.

From Reuters

Which author congratulated himself for using the word "flocculent", who wrote "A joke will separate the men from the boys every time", and who captioned a glamorous picture herself "fiction"?

From The Guardian

In all these cases tiny flocculent masses of hot and cold air, of slightly differing refrangibility, are mingled together.

From Project Gutenberg