How to Use floodwater in a Sentence

floodwater

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  • On Monday, the park was closed as floodwater rushed through parts of the park.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Brewer’s crew was at the scene when the floodwaters rapidly rose.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • To the south, in the basin that once held Tulare Lake, the floodwater was still coursing through rivers and canals toward the old lake bed.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Avoid getting in or near floodwaters, both in the streets and inside your home.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • When the floodwaters receded, the sharks remained stranded in the 51-acre body of water near the course's 14th hole.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • All of that rain and floodwater had to go somewhere, and much of it flowed into Galveston Bay.
    — Tacey Hicks, Chron, 7 Feb. 2023
  • As Stumpy reached peak bloom for the last time, floodwater surrounded it.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Stay out of the ocean and floodwaters, and always avoid moving water.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • During a battle with the Moabites, God told the Israelites to catch floodwater in ditches.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There Oleshky was, less than ten miles away from her, across an expanse of river and floodwater.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
  • One night in late July, Roark awoke to find floodwater shooting out of it like a firehose.
    — The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The doctor who had started the commotion was on duty when the floodwaters roared in.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But then the floodwaters would end and there’d still be another quarter-mile on foot.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The floodwaters had picked up an Acura sedan and slammed it into their unit’s wooden front fence.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The person recording crouches and pans to the right in time to catch a cascade of water forming a misty wall of droplets above the dark brown floodwaters.
    — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 8 June 2023
  • But within hours, both Tahjon and his 6-year-old brother, Tahjir, were found dead in a nearby canal filled with floodwater from the storm.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Rachel Oliviera used a shovel to try to push out some of the floodwater and thick mud enveloping her Felton Grove home.
    — Monica Garrett, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Witnesses told Reuters that the floodwaters in Derna reached as high as 10 feet.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • There also needs to be more storage room for floodwater.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Mud lines on the door indicated at least 4 feet of floodwater.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The monuments were constructed on the very edge of the Giza Plateau overlooking the Nile River and well above its floodwaters.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Tony Sanz spent the night in a city park before seeking higher ground around dawn as floodwaters were rising around his tent.
    — Julie Watson, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Four people were in the car when it was swept into the Swift River's rising floodwaters, police said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, rats scurry by and some mysterious black sludge oozes out of the walls—maybe from the same holes that floodwaters shot out of today.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The silt has resulted in much of the wash bed sitting at an even level with the surrounding land, causing floodwater to crest its banks.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In one February 2018 event, all of the apartment complex’s first-floor units were damaged by floodwaters.
    — Alex Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As the floodwaters recede, people should be careful about being close to the riverbank because of the debris that will be left behind, Wendt said.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
  • In the wake of Hurricane Ian in 2022, at least a dozen electric cars caught fire after being exposed to salty floodwaters that caused them to short-circuit.
    — John Fund, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Quite a few backyard swimming pools along lakeshores were left under floodwater, blending hues of aqua blue and amber.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022

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