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Example sentences for "inundates"

Lexicographically close words:
inuite; inuited; inunction; inundate; inundated; inundating; inundation; inundations; inure; inured
  1. The Nestus does not always keep within its banks, but frequently inundates the country.

  2. That central force, which allows no aberration, takes from them nothing of their extent, or of the grandeur of their movement; but it inundates them with light, while giving to their motion a more majestic regularity.

  3. Awakened Paris once more inundates those outer courts; boils, in floods wilder than ever, through all avenues.

  4. It sinks from the month of May, and is at its minimum of height in the months of July and August, at the time when the Lower Orinoco inundates all the surrounding land.

  5. When the waters are high, the river inundates the quays; and it sometimes happens that, even in the town, imprudent persons become the prey of crocodiles.

  6. Now this White Sea is nothing but the Rio Parima, which is called the White River (Rio Branco, or Rio del Aguas blancas), and runs through and inundates the whole of this land.

  7. The torrents which flow in all directions from the mountains, contribute to swell this river, and in winter it inundates the country to a great extent.

  8. In the winter it inundates the plain in the bottom of the narrow valley, but never rises to the level of the upper plain of the Ghor, which is at least forty feet above the level of the river.

  9. In working them the great difficulty to be confronted by the miners is the vast quantity of water that almost inundates the mines; but this might be obviated by the employment of a steam-engine.

  10. In May the melting of the snow swells the stream into a great flood, which inundates much of the valley, and gradually widens from one bank to the other, with the tops of the trees rising above the swirl of waters like islands.

  11. When this was done, Stulta said to herself, "See how Puera inundates us with her products; we must see to it.

  12. If a man lets his field for pay on shares to a farmer and receives his rent, and afterward the storm-god inundates the field and carries off the produce, the loss is the farmer's.

  13. In October, when the Nile inundates Egypt, that long serpent would be blue, like water.

  14. From the last days of June till the end of September the Nile swells and inundates almost all Egypt; from the end of October to the last days in May the year following it falls and exposes gradually lower and lower platforms of land.

  15. Above Natchez, the river inundates the lands for a space of thirty miles.

  16. When it overflows its banks, the Mississippi inundates the country on both sides, for an extent of from forty-five to fifty miles, thus forming an immense lake.


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