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Example sentences for "flooding"

Lexicographically close words:
flom; flood; flooded; floodgate; floodgates; floodlight; floodlights; floods; floodtide; flooers
  1. Ah, what would he not give if he could find the man, if he could take Cummins back to his wife, and stand for one moment more with her hands clasping his, her joy flooding him with a sweetness that would last for all time!

  2. He was appraising her almost startling beauty with the lamp glow flooding down on her.

  3. She had risen and was standing at her full height, an angry color flooding into her face.

  4. Barbara stood close to the wall, the anguish of the past, with all its memories, flooding back on her, now that he was going.

  5. As the plane neared the ground suddenly under one of the wings a flare of dazzling power would commence to burn, for a few seconds flooding the field with light.

  6. In the darkness, a gust of wind might uproot a tree, weakened by flooding or the effect of the preparatory bombardment, and send it crashing down.

  7. His room looked north-west, and they had dined early, so that the sun still shone in at his window, flooding the room in cool crystal light.

  8. His long, lazy stretch turned him a little on the sofa, so that he faced her as she stood by the window, with the rosy evening light flooding her face.

  9. Badness is sometimes only dammed up energy, which can no more help flooding over than dammed up water.

  10. At half-past five it was at its height; the lightning was incessant and thunder continuous; the rain falling not in drops but in sheets, flooding everything.

  11. The decline resulted from bad weather, labor trouble in the canefields, and flooding and equipment problems in the bauxite industry.

  12. A round, red, important sun peeped from under the gray cloud bank that had lowered all the afternoon, flooding the thin branches of the budding trees, falling warm and gold across the dead fields.

  13. Through the east windows the sun streamed in solidly, flooding the counterpane, warming the faded roses of the wall paper.

  14. A flooding of the mind from on high may overflow these embankments but they still stand, shaping the flow of the fullest tides.

  15. It is thus the literature of the most important religious movement civilization has experienced; a movement whose unspent forces we are feeling still, in the flooding tides of progress.

  16. He was silent a little while, gazing out of the window at the palm trees on the lawn and the bright sunshine flooding all.

  17. Rainbow glories flooding Forest, hill, and vale, With a ruby lustre And an amber pale.

  18. Unirrigated alfalfa is also reduced by the incursions of gophers which flooding at least once a year will destroy.

  19. The land is level and can be irrigated by flooding or ditching between the rows.

  20. Will the walnut trees be injured in any way by irrigating them at the same time and manner as the alfalfa - that is, by flooding the land between the checks?

  21. Eaton felt the warm blood flooding his face and his heart throb with gratitude toward her.

  22. So, instead of being estranged by Eaton's manner to her father, she felt an impulse of feeling toward him flooding her, a feeling which she tried to explain to herself as sympathy.

  23. That is to say, one has the flooding sunshine, the balmy air and the brilliant blue sea, without the marring additions of human pow-wow and fuss and feathers and display.

  24. And how they flash and glow and burn in the flooding sunlight!

  25. He motioned me to a chair facing the window, a great uncurtained affair, through which the north light came flooding in, whilst he himself sat in the shadows.

  26. In the clear light which came flooding in through the north window he seemed to me older, and his face more deeply lined than any of my previous impressions of him had suggested.

  27. If you are subjected to evil influences, or contagion of those harboring low emotions and desires, you will do well to acquire the art of flooding your aura with the positive blue tints.

  28. The moon had risen, flooding the little room with a soft, pale light, but Jack was sitting in the shadow, and Houston could not see the effect produced by his words.

  29. The sun was slowly sinking behind the crests of the mountains, flooding the surrounding peaks with glory, when a wagon drawn by four panting, foaming horses, drew up before the house.

  30. How the flooding of the YSER on the front of the right wing of the Fourth Army brought the offensive of the III and XXII Reserve Corps to a standstill has already been described.

  31. For three weeks those arguments have been flooding everything else from my mind.

  32. And God was sending it to her now; flooding her, drowning her in its warm comfort.

  33. Even the glare of a gin palace, flooding out across the crowded pavement at some street corner, would have, just now, been fraught with solace, convinced prohibitionist though he was.

  34. Now in broad daylight, the generous sunshine flooding him, the smooth river purring and glittering at his feet, belief in grim and ghostly happenings became more than ever inadmissible, not to say quite arrantly grotesque.

  35. She had literally torn aside for him the hopeless chaos in which he saw himself struggling, flooding him with the warm radiance of a great love and a still greater desire.

  36. The morning after Shan Tung's visit he awoke to find the sun flooding in through the eastern window of his room, The warmth of it as it fell full in his face, setting his eyes blinking, told him it was too late.

  37. Before long the moon came out in full splendor, flooding the vast expanse with enchanting light and creating a scene beautiful beyond description.

  38. But before long the moon came out in full splendor, flooding the rocky vastness with enchanting light.

  39. But flooding in his mines and further ventures resulted in his ruin and bankruptcy.

  40. Flooding of coal, tin and copper mines became a problem.

  41. He was aware of the problem of flooding of mines and the awkward system of pumps which were used one above the other and were powered by teams of horses.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flooding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.