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'flood' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'flood' with 17 example sentences.


flood noun

: 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

: 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.
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