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Example sentences for: flooding

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What happened, the story explains, is that the gun manufacturers got around the intent of the laws by flooding the market with copycat weapons that differ from the particular banned ones only cosmetically, and by substantially increasing the volume of assault weapons they manufactured before the ban became law, because the post-ban continued sale of such guns is allowed.
And foreign tourists soon began flooding into the country to see the splendors that had been inaccessible for so long.
The Saudis could single-handedly depress the market by flooding it with oil, as they did in 1986 in order to discipline recalcitrant OPEC members.
Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)
Geometry was used to lay out fields in Egypt after the flooding of the Nile, to aid navigation, to aid city planning.