flood
Example Sentences
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And more recently, Vietnam has been experiencing devastating floods, which mobilized Tran, who spoke to me from Haiphong during a break from his advocacy work.
From Salon
Southern California is heading into the New Year with another round of rain, renewed flood risks and what forecasters say is a near-guarantee of a wet Rose Parade.
From Los Angeles Times
Don’t forget Canada’s zombie wildfires, the Texas floods, the late autumn Southwest heat waves, the calving Doomsday glacier and on and on.
From Salon
“There’s so many more contaminants that are going to be hitting fields because of droughts and floods and all these extreme weather events. How are these crops becoming much more resilient?”
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica in October as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, bringing heavy rains and flash flooding, downing power lines and cutting off the internet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
