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Example sentences for "inundate"

Lexicographically close words:
inuironed; inuisible; inuite; inuited; inunction; inundated; inundates; inundating; inundation; inundations
  1. Well, brother, the supreme moment is close at hand; the blood of the Spaniard will again inundate the soil of Peru, and the nineteenth century will avenge the sixteenth.

  2. I feel as if God had wished to inundate my heart with all the joy which it can feel!

  3. Seneca as originally proposed would inundate 35 miles of this stretch, together with islands and bottomlands, forests of big hardwoods, meadows and productive fields, and that much-used segment of the publicly owned C.

  4. To enable them to inundate the immense plain which stretched between Lillo and Strabrock up to the walls of Antwerp, it was necessary to cut through the dike which defended it against the irruptions of the eastern Scheldt.

  5. It is subject to violent floods, which inundate the surrounding country for a distance of 10 to 20 m.

  6. Owing to its small value as a navigable highway and to its propensity to inundate the regions in its neighbourhood, there are no considerable towns on its lower course.

  7. Rays of light inundate space, producing in sensitive beings the wonderful phenomena of sight: rays of heat extend in all directions, and motion and life spring up on all sides; where is the want of activity revealed by experience?

  8. So it may happen, that the waters coming in a vast body from the eastern Indian Ocean are driven together, and forced into the channel of the Atlantic, and therefore inundate both coasts at once.

  9. Suppress the protection which represents the difference of price according to each, and foreign produce must immediately inundate and obtain the monopoly of our market.

  10. The immense deluge which pours down from the clouds in South America would, if the water were to remain where it fell, wholly submerge and inundate the country.

  11. In a certain season of the year the rains are incessant, and they descend with such abundance and profusion as almost to inundate the districts where they fall.

  12. If then, they inundate us with their products, it is because they expect to be inundated with ours.

  13. Suppress the protection which represents the difference of price according to each, and foreign productions must immediately inundate and obtain the monopoly of our market.

  14. The sun, which had not ceased to inundate the court-yard all the day, hid itself at last.

  15. In the twenty-first story of the second book of Afanassieff, first the serpent with three heads appears, then that with six, then that with nine heads which throw out water and threaten to inundate the kingdom.

  16. He liberated a gaol full of ruffians, not to inundate the world with a host of felons and vagabonds, but, simply, to give them a kind of day-rule.

  17. The fires in some volcanic craters of the Peruvian Andes are still active, and there is no assurance that devastating flows may not again inundate the valleys.

  18. Hamah forms a part of the province of Damascus, and is usually the station of three or four hundred horsemen, kept here by the Pasha to check the Arabs, who inundate the country in spring and summer.

  19. There are not many Wadys in this country which inundate the land; but the inhabitants make the best use of the water to irrigate their fields after the great rains have ceased.

  20. We can break down the dikes, inundate the country, and let the water and the Spaniards fight it out between them.

  21. Should his integrity succumb, and the jug tilt too far, the stream of sorghum might inundate his raiment, and the catastrophe would place him beyond the pale of polite society.

  22. The immediate effect of the drainage of higher lands has often been to inundate the lower levels.


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