flood zone
Example Sentences
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A new San Gabriel mission was being built, five years after Franciscan missionaries had founded the original mission in a flood zone, which flooded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Elevated high above the flood zone and offering 1,250 feet of direct water frontage the property unfolds with extraordinary scale and privacy.”
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Hundreds of Milwaukee basements flooded recently were outside of a federal flood zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Many of the more than 21,000 people who were evacuated from the flood zone began to return home as water receded in the central coastal city of Hue on Wednesday morning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
Estimates of the flood death list in Columbus continued to range from fifty to five hundred, although these figures represented largely opinions of officials on duty in the flood zone.
From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Marshall, Logan
