Examples of flood

• When the river flooded, the footbridge was swept away.

• The river burst its banks and flooded the surrounding fields.

• He left the bath running and flooded the bathroom.

• The severe cold caused a water main to burst and flood the street.

• This coastal area floods every year, so the local people build their houses on stilts.

• Wearing scarves and hats which proclaimed their allegiance, the football fans flooded into the bar.

• There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.

• Offers of help have been flooding in since news of the disaster first emerged.

• Messages of support have been flooding in since she announced her decision to stand for president.

• Memories of childhood flooded back as she looked through the photographs.

• The recent flood has swept away the footbridge.

• You should check your policy to see if you're covered for flood damage.

• After the flood, nothing remained of the village.

• The floods left thousands of people destitute.

• People living in low-lying areas were evacuated because of the floods.

• A variety of ' loyal ' complaints and petitions flooded into government offices to complement this underhand resistance.

• In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads.

• Thus, while music culture is flooded by the latest technology, the need for a defence against oversimplification has grown.

• The region is characterized by tropical seasonally flooded savannas.

• The precise sense of gelad may have been 'water-crossing liable to be rendered impassable by flooding'.

• Effects of flooding on memories of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.

• During the 1931 survey it was noticed that these belts frequently formed the highwater-mark of the floods.

• Late water floods can be used to lower pesticide inputs but the success of this practice is dependent on many variables36,38.

• Nevertheless, some relatively small differences were detected in the degree of secondary dormancy induced in each population by flooding.

• Frequency of flooding which covered seedling census plots did not differ among the sites.

• Studies began 1 y before the onset of forest fragmentation and encompassed the first 3 y after flooding.

• More than 90% of the landscape is terra firme, although small periodically flooded areas also occur.

• The response of fishes to periodic spring floods in a southeastern stream.

• He also noted sudden thickening of coals along zones adjacent to belts of thin coal, which was ascribed to redeposition by flooding.

• Each island was classified according to the amount of water in the soil (flooded, wet or moist) and by the island form (elliptical or long).