How to Use viscous in a Sentence

viscous

adjective
  • The whiskey is sweet and viscous, with a notable mouth weight.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Tim and the others were served the green, viscous brew in small cups.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Some of it’s thin and watery, and some is viscous and goopy.
    — Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The entourage feasted on pork bits, tilapia, and viscous okra soup.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The sweetness spreads across the mid-palate with thick viscous mouthfeel.
    — Dan Dunn, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Hoisin is sticky-sweet and soy-based, slightly viscous and very savory.
    — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • For cells, living in a cold and more viscous fluid means getting less to eat.
    — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The older sister strips to her socks when the viscous mud starts claiming shoes.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • 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 result is a mouth feel that’s smooth and viscous versus brittle and coarse.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Quartzy, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The team went back and observed viscous but not hardened hemolymph oozing from wounds.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The texture is fuller and more viscous than that of lighter Spanish-style rums.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • The texture is robust and viscous.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Healthy sap is clear, viscous, and slightly golden in color.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • These are whipped into a viscous, hydrating serum that my skin drinks up in seconds.
    — Emily Orofino, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2025
  • 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 first sip is mildly viscous, with a beeswax-like quality and traces of honey syrup.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Their steep, conical slopes are built by the eruption of viscous lava flows and rock, ash and gas.
    — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
  • These ports show greater complexity and a silky, viscous texture on the palate.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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 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
  • In the double doody realm, viscous soluble fiber is the star.
    — Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The syrup hurricane, viscous and lethal, stalled out over the town of Chewandswallow for three days.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The soups are generally thickened to give them a viscous texture that sticks to the starch.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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