'flood' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'flood' with 17 example sentences.
- flood noun
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: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
: an overwhelming number or amount
: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
: a large flow
: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- flood verb
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: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
: cover with liquid, usually water
: supply with an excess of
: become filled to overflowing
Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.
The flood was the greatest disaster they had ever had.
I wasn't affected by the flood.
That river floods every year.
The village was isolated by the flood.
I don't have flood insurance.
St. Mark’s Square is flooded.
Classes have been suspended due to floods.
They worked hard to aid the victims of the flood.
A giant wave flooded the canoe.
We were flooded with applications for the job.
The office is flooded with fan letters for him.
The market was flooded with foreign goods.
Her eyes were flooded with tears.
The counterfeit bills flooded the market over the weekend.
They demanded an end to the flood of immigration.
The town was flooded with strange foreign words.