How to Use floodwater in a Sentence

floodwater

noun
  • Roadbeds may be washed out by floodwaters.
    — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Don’t walk, swim or drive through floodwaters.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Do not walk through floodwater.
    — Stephen Harding, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Heavy rains and rising floodwaters blocked the team’s path back out.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Debris falls from homes spliced open by the floodwaters.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But they were headed away from the floodwaters.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • People there are urged to move to higher ground and to not drive through floodwaters.
    — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Avoid getting in or near floodwaters, both in the streets and inside your home.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The rain had stopped and much of the floodwater was subsiding.
    — Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
  • In some videos, people are wading in floodwaters up to their thighs.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then as floodwaters slowly ebbed away, seeds for the harvest could be sown.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In much of the area, residents watched floodwater wash away their cars and homes.
    — Jessica Pishko, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
  • On Monday, the park was closed as floodwater rushed through parts of the park.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Brewer’s crew was at the scene when the floodwaters rapidly rose.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • Last but not least, wash your floors and walls to remove any dirt left behind by the floodwater.
    — Carmen Collins, Country Living, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Footage from the ground shows cars floating above the muddy floodwater.
    — Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 22 July 2021
  • Musielak says every year around this time, the floodwaters creep up in his backyard.
    — Elle Meyers, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The post shows video footage of the dog barking and shaking as floodwaters reached the dog's chest.
    — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The rain, on top of all that snow, sent floodwaters running into rivers, streets and homes.
    — The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Heavy rains struck the area and parts of their path back to the cave entrance became swollen with floodwaters.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
  • Avoid driving through floodwaters next time.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Kids were not spared from the floodwaters, or from any phase of the disaster after.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The numbness started in Sam’s feet and worked its way up like floodwater.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
  • But then the floodwaters would end and there’d still be another quarter-mile on foot.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023

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