Examples of deluged

• They were successful because they used literate, educated men as lawyers and letter writers, and deluged different branches of the colonial state with their concerns.

• They were deluged by the new legislation being broadcast to the provinces, much of it impossible to apply in practice.

• If the contexts are too general, the designer will be deluged with irrelevant requirements.

• We are deluged by statutory regulations and it is a matter of very great concern to the business community.

• We have been deluged with social studies and economic advice.

• We have not been deluged with letters of support, but we have certainly had almost no evidence of hostility to change.

• The ombudsman should not be deluged by day-to-day matters of the supervision of individual pensions schemes.

• Tinned herring have been thoroughly spoiled for anyone with any sense of taste by being deluged in cheap tomato sauce.