How to Use flood in a Sentence
- We've received a flood of mail.
- The water has risen to flood level.
- A flood inundated the whole area.
- Seeing her again brought back a flood of memories.
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And the flood gates went from there.
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Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2026
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He's watched it through floods and droughts.
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Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
31 May 2026
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Her black cat sniffs at the flood’s edge.
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Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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There is the joke about the man and the flood.
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Rabbi Steve Roth,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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All were taken out by the flood.
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Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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The others all were swept away in the flood.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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So, there was a flood of subscribers.
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Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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That camper was also lost in the flood.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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Layoffs seem to be a stream rather than a flood.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Open all your windows and let the fresh air flood in.
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Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Star-Telegram Weather Bot,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Aug. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Oct. 2025
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Don't walk through flood waters.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
- The rivers are close to flooding.
- The phone calls have been flooding in.
- The room was flooded with light.
- The plain floods every spring.
- The valley flooded after the heavy rains.
- The office has been flooded with phone calls.
- Light flooded into the room.
- Refugees flooded into the camp.
- Heavy rains flooded the valley.
- The company plans to flood the market with this product.
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More than a dozen rivers are flooded.
—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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The storms aren't what flooded the city.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Out-of-state money will flood the zone.
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Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
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Grab your garden hose and flood the ants out of their nests.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
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Bike paths downstream of the gage will be flooded.
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Star-Telegram Weather Bot,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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More voices flood in across the next four minutes.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 May 2026
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Within the hour, videos of his death flooded the web.
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Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps such a gospel could flood the nation.
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Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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Fans flooded the comments with jokes and love.
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Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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My emails and text messages have been flooded.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Then the orders began to flood in.
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Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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Though his home didn't flood, the pharmacy did.
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Reena Advani,
NPR,
1 Sep. 2025
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Some roads may also be flooded.
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Michelle Marchante
updated May 27,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2026
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Tourists wearing bike shorts and fishing waders flood the trails and trout streams.
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Robin Pfeifer,
Midwest Living,
23 Apr. 2026
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Her lakefront house was flooded, too.
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Dian Zhang,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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That amount is enough to flood 578 square miles with a foot of water.
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Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Some campsites will be flooded.
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Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Emotions then flooded over him.
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Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
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Aaron said that his inbox was flooded with e-mails from grateful users.
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Oriana Van Praag,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Reddit users were quick to flood the post with excitement and jokes.
—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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