How to Use floodplain in a Sentence

floodplain

noun
  • And there are thousands of them, part of a vast and swampy floodplain forest.
    — Ben Raines, NOLA.com, 25 June 2017
  • For the past hour, the flood waters have raced across the floodplain southwest of the city.
    — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Bozo left the beach and plunged into the willows at the edge of the floodplain.
    — Jerome B. Robinson, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Levees have walled off floodplains that once allowed the river to spread across five or six miles.
    — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
  • The people fished in the water and farmed on the silty floodplain, growing crops such as corn and squash.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Around 22 acres of floodplain on the old course’s westernmost edge will be set aside as green space.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That’s putting a premium on properties that did not flood and are not in the floodplain.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
  • The state funding will allow the city to raise the bridge just over 3 feet, which would raise it out of the floodplain.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The river will have the freedom to move and reconnect to floodplains.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • Beyond the floodplain was the jeeri, the dry, sandy border of the Ferlo desert.
    — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
  • When 16% of your State lies in a floodplain, that is an emergency.
    — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • When waters are low, river dolphins stick to the main rivers and only move when fish flow through the floodplains.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • As the rain grew worse, Joey checked online and found that their apartment complex was in a floodplain.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Green said the program has removed more than 1,600 homes from the floodplain.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2018
  • The pit, about 40 acres, would be dug next to the White River and in the floodplain.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The property is in a floodplain that is in a larger area of the northeast side of the city known for flooding.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The area that flooded is a low-lying floodplain for the Po River.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • The water flows west, down a steep canyon, to a floodplain and a network of lateral lakes and wetlands.
    — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 12 June 2016
  • The money cannot be used to build things in the 100-year floodplain, however.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Our clear, 30-foot-wide river had risen to a raging torrent that filled the floodplain from side to side.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Today, no homes can be built in a floodplain per Benbrook city ordinance.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On Roosevelt Island, a great glass X lifts above the floodplain.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The coastal floodplain that was desolate throughout the long winter is now lush with plant life and buzzing with insects.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Three of the four campuses are inside the 100-year floodplain.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Fish, birds and insects thrive in the floodplains, with the latter serving as food for their hungry bat neighbors.
    — Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In all, the eight-phase project is designed to reduce the number of homes in the floodplain by about 450.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This rich ecosystem of rainforests, floodplains, and mangrove swamps is home to 10 primate species.
    — Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There would be no impact on the plaza or paseo design or protection of the 100-year floodplain.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Armed with permission to study the entire Luxor floodplain, the research team is now casting a wider net.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Then, floodplains will play a critical role in absorbing runoff and pollutants.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026

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