How to Use floodplain in a Sentence

floodplain

noun

• On Roosevelt Island, a great glass X lifts above the floodplain.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• Indianapolis approved purchasing a floodplain for the first time this year, which can help absorb excess water that paved roads and parking lots cannot.
  — Linh Ta, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
• The forest receded in this area, replaced by a vast sweep of floodplains decorated with carpets of tiny yellow flowers and solitary oak trees.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• But infrastructure decisions—be it dams and levees or new housing developments in floodplains—can play a part in how devastating, or not, that event might be.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• State Route 126 cuts right down the floodplain, and the Porsche excelled here, too, without whimper or complaint when the going got trafficky.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2017
• Their feet left copious traces in muddy Permian floodplains, leaving tracks scattered across ancient sediments.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
• The population dispersed into smaller settlements out in the surrounding floodplain and beyond.
  — R. Alexander Bentley, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
• There are even efforts farther inland to plant trees and develop greenway along floodplains in central and northern Macomb County to help the lake and other waterways.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2017
• The pit, about 40 acres, would be dug next to the White River and in the floodplain.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2020
• McCaskill said the area by the park is in a floodplain.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• For the past hour, the flood waters have raced across the floodplain southwest of the city.
  — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 12 Feb. 2018
• Bozo left the beach and plunged into the willows at the edge of the floodplain.
  — Jerome B. Robinson, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Juniper Creek trail passes through the park and is 7.5 miles through the floodplains.
  — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
• Beyond the floodplain was the jeeri, the dry, sandy border of the Ferlo desert.
  — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
• The state funding will allow the city to raise the bridge just over 3 feet, which would raise it out of the floodplain.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
• In all, the eight-phase project is designed to reduce the number of homes in the floodplain by about 450.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Here, the Salisbury Plain meets the floodplain of the River Avon.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• The people fished in the water and farmed on the silty floodplain, growing crops such as corn and squash.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• The property is in the southern portion of the Yolo Bypass, a floodplain on the north side of the delta.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• Green said the program has removed more than 1,600 homes from the floodplain.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2018
• His new house is also on the White River, in a floodplain.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2020
• Mahoney lives about a mile south of Haverstick Woods in the floodplain of the White River.
  — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2018
• The Braeswood location of Three Brothers is in a 100-year floodplain, on the banks of the bayou.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
• Hike the Boardwalk Loop Trail: An easy walk through the park’s floodplain forest.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• The money cannot be used to build things in the 100-year floodplain, however.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
• The blazes have consumed about 28% of the vast floodplain that stretches across parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
  — Shasta Darlington, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• The area that flooded is a low-lying floodplain for the Po River.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Stumps and logs and ash are deposited on the sides of the floodplain at the very feet of the hikers watching it come right at them.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Water could have then flowed east into a floodplain that was possibly once a lake, and from there into the Dry Moat surrounding the pyramid.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
• In a tropical floodplain, the researchers found that whether or not trees act as a methane source or sink depends on time of year and whether the ground is inundated or dry.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024