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Example sentences for "inundating"

Lexicographically close words:
inuited; inunction; inundate; inundated; inundates; inundation; inundations; inure; inured; inuring
  1. The Indus River is at flood, inundating the country, which is also jungly and wild and without roads.

  2. The river is here prevented from inundating the low country adjacent by strong levees; along these are well-tramped paths that afford much good wheeling, as well as providing a well-defined course toward Sam-shue.

  3. The river has burst into the cellars of the Residency, and is within a foot of inundating the whole city.

  4. The water also has increased so much as to be within a few inches of inundating the city.

  5. The rainfall is excessive, often inundating fields and forming extensive lagoons.

  6. As he came nearer to it his hope grew less for he could see where the flames had swept in an inundating sea along Cragg's Ridge.

  7. An inundating roar was over her, under her, and all about her; it beat in a hissing thunder against the drums of her ears, yet it did not frighten her as she had sometimes been frightened.

  8. The current of a new spirit had flowed in, inundating every nook and corner of the province.

  9. Others made their way to the roofs, persuaded that the flood was already inundating the basements and the lower stories of their dwellings.

  10. We returned to Buiksloot and then proceeded to Saardam, on the top of a Dyke, which keeps the sea from inundating the vast levels of North Holland.

  11. You don't see that after having annihilated our hunting by inundating us with game, he would annihilate our gardening by inundating us with vegetables.

  12. Immediately great clouds gathered in all parts of the sky and sent down inundating showers, which put out the fire that threatened the nunnery.

  13. You do not see that after having destroyed our hunting, by inundating us with game, he will kill our gardening by overwhelming us with vegetables.

  14. Do we not hear it said every day, "Foreign nations are inundating us with their productions"?

  15. All at once, like an inundating wave, the great realization flashed on Thor that he did not have to leave it all!

  16. The mellow coloring of the third evening which Claud Cranmer had spent at Poole Farm was inundating the valley with its warm floods of light.

  17. The various creeks and mountain rills tributary to the Canisteo river became swollen and swept into the village, inundating many of the streets to the depth of three feet and others from five to seven feet.

  18. Every river and mountain stream in the western half of the State has overflowed its banks, inundating villages and manufactories and laying waste thousands of acres of farm lands.

  19. At the moment when the earthquake commenced the two rivers Cuitimba and San Pedro flowed backwards, inundating all the plain now occupied by Jorullo; but in the regions which continually rose, a gulf opened and swallowed up the rivers.

  20. Lots of patent medicines, with which the enemy was about inundating the South American coast, for the benefit of the livers of their fellow-democrats, were consigned to the flames.

  21. The water rising and inundating the basement of the grotto clothed with these plants, seemed to cover the rock with gems.


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