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Example sentences for: flood

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So wide and treacherous is the river that, before the construction of the great concrete-and-steel bridge of Wuhan (the first to cross the Yangzi) in 1957, all communications depended on the ferries, which were often hampered by fog or flood.
Toward the center of Michelangelo’s ceiling, you’ll make out the celebrated outstretched finger of man’s creation, filled out by the drunkenness of Noah, the turmoil of the Flood.
--James Flood Baltimore
You could easily have got the wrong impression of José Saramago from the flood of press reports last week when it was announced that he'd won this year's Nobel Prize for literature.
Each man had taken a principled position during his Senate career-McCain against ethanol subsidies, Bradley against Midwestern flood relief funded by federal borrowing-that could be used against him in Iowa.