Example sentences for: flush

How can you use “flush” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the first flush of dictatorship as First Consul, he established the Banque de France, created state-run lycées (high schools), and gave the country its first national set of laws, the Code Napoléon.

  • In 1169 the Fatimids were crushed by the armies of Saladin — already flush with victories in Palestine and Syria — who established the Ayyubid Dynasty and created the fortified citadel to protect Cairo.

  • Whereas, the Times speculated, a sensible response to the hijacking might have been "to pool regional forces in anti-terrorist measures which might either negotiate with the hijackers or flush them out of the plane by force," since India has "frayed diplomatic ties with Pakistan and none with the internationally shunned Taleban régime … channels for coordinated action … did not exist."

  • Northwest Indians lived in a land of vast abundance, the streams flush with fish, the forest thick with game.

  • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is flush with cash, reports the Post in an inside item.


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