How to Use flooded in a Sentence

flooded

adjective

• Tips from the site: Do not attempt to drive through a flooded road.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2023
• Nearly 1,400 people died in the storm, many of them in flooded homes.
  — Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
• Rescuers said the people had tried to drive across a flooded road when they got stuck in the water.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• The cut rock sides suggest that, rather than a river, the services might have been in a flooded quarry.
  — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Streets remain flooded and trees are down in Asheville, N.C., on Sunday.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
• In one video that has been viewed more than 1.3 million times, DeLeon is seen swimming through a flooded street.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Trucks drive down a flooded street in Lakeside, Calif., on Tuesday.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Authorities said six young adults were in the vehicle that was swept away as the car tried to cross a bridge over a flooded creek in the town of Grovespring.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Tips from the department's website: Do not attempt to drive through a flooded road.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
• Some people arranged milk crates and wooden boards to cross the flooded sidewalks.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Bobby Caina Calvan and Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2023
• Some people arranged milk crates and wooden boards to cross the flooded sidewalks, with water close to waist-deep in the middle of some streets.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• One man, who declined to provide his name, said his grandmother was stuck on the other side in a flooded home.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Rain may lead to flash flooding, and the NWS advises drivers not to drive through flooded roadways.
  — Jen Guadarrama, The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2024
• Many had been saved by rescue crews, after spending days or even weeks stranded on roofs, in trees and in flooded homes.
  — Jorge C. Carrasco, New York Times, 30 May 2024
• Never approach or try to travel through a flooded area.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• So far, more than 1,000 tons of trash, mud and debris had been removed from flooded neighborhoods.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• And in the Cayman Islands, schools closed and residents pumped water from flooded homes.
  — Heather Hollingsworth and Stephen Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
• Even before high tide, the incoming surf sent empty trash cans floating down the flooded street.
  — Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023
• He’s taken it with him from room to room to room since his first night here, after being rescued from his flooded trailer.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• There were so many examples of cars abandoned or stuck in flooded roadways.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• Then throw flooded items that pose a health risk such as perishable food items, clothing, cushions and pillows.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Many Northern California farms were hit hard by this week’s rainfall, which drenched crops and left flooded fields in its wake.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• By early evening, about 50 people were rescued from flooded cars.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• The dogs available for adoption are from flooded shelters in North Carolina.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
• Leatham said there were reports of flooded roadways across Connecticut, though, and water in basements in the Hartford area.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• This film dramatizes the 2018 rescue of a boys soccer tream trapped in a flooded cave system in Thailand, with some of the real divers playing themselves.
  — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Heavy storms slammed the region during the first week of May, leading to numerous high-water rescues, including some from the rooftops of flooded homes.
  — TIME, 17 May 2024
• The agency also wants to remind the public never to drive into flooded waters.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• In 2018, a Thai youth soccer team and their coach became trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand's rugged, mountainous Chiang Rai province.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Search and rescue teams work in boats to evacuate residents from a flooded part of Kherson on Wednesday.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024