But excessive or overly broad patents can slow business activity to the pace of cold molasses.

On the viscosity scale, this stuff was much nearer cold molasses than glass.

Hitting the ground, he felt caught in cold molasses.

At room temperature, it is much like cold molasses".

Father Moontree was talking human words and was saying in a voice that moved like cold molasses out of a heavy jar, "Ca-p-t-a-in."

She tried to think of something merely misleading, but her mind had moved beyond fatigue to some region where thought flowed like cold molasses.

The time it took to raise the pipe up and down must have been brief, but to me he looked like he was moving through cold molasses.

Like pouring cold molasses, I re-formed, the effort leaving me weak.

Bitumen refers to mixtures with the consistency of cold molasses that pour at room temperatures with agonizing slowness.

It slows Krll nervous systems to the pace of cold molasses.