How to Use flood in a Sentence

flood

1 of 2 noun

• We've received a flood of mail.
• The water has risen to flood level.
• A flood inundated the whole area.
• Seeing her again brought back a flood of memories.
• And the flood gates went from there.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
• He's watched it through floods and droughts.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026
• Her black cat sniffs at the flood’s edge.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
• There is the joke about the man and the flood.
  — Rabbi Steve Roth, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
• All were taken out by the flood.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
• The others all were swept away in the flood.
  — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 23 June 2026
• So, there was a flood of subscribers.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• That camper was also lost in the flood.
  — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 23 June 2026
• Layoffs seem to be a stream rather than a flood.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Open all your windows and let the fresh air flood in.
  — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2026
• Don't walk through flood waters.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026
• At that height, the Mon Wharf floods.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• Much like last year, the floods came in the middle of the night.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026
• Much of Hawaii is under flood watch.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
• Hardy tried his best to pull her up, but the flood waters were too strong.
  — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
• The flood rewrote both the schedule and the agenda.
  — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• The top-floor location means sun floods the space all day long.
  — Gabriela Ulloa, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2025
• Coastal flood warnings will be in effect in all three states.
  — February 22, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
• Then, on the third day, the flood receded.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
• Keep in mind that a flood warning is more severe than a flood watch.
  — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 17 July 2026
• The alert warned of a flood event that could last several hours.
  — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
• At one point this week, the entire state was under a flood watch.
  — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
• Many who lost their jobs in the flood found work cleaning up the stockyards.
  — Michelle Oliva-Espinosa, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
• That includes against flood, fire and even earthquakes.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
• At one point, a flood swept in and cut off the roads back to Marrakesh.
  — Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
• The king tides were just as high or higher than the flood waters to the west.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026

flood

2 of 2 verb

• The rivers are close to flooding.
• The phone calls have been flooding in.
• The room was flooded with light.
• The plain floods every spring.
• The valley flooded after the heavy rains.
• The office has been flooded with phone calls.
• Light flooded into the room.
• Refugees flooded into the camp.
• Heavy rains flooded the valley.
• The company plans to flood the market with this product.
• More than a dozen rivers are flooded.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
• The storms aren't what flooded the city.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
• Out-of-state money will flood the zone.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
• Grab your garden hose and flood the ants out of their nests.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
• Bike paths downstream of the gage will be flooded.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
• More voices flood in across the next four minutes.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2026
• Within the hour, videos of his death flooded the web.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• Perhaps such a gospel could flood the nation.
  — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
• Fans flooded the comments with jokes and love.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• My emails and text messages have been flooded.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
• Then the orders began to flood in.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
• Though his home didn't flood, the pharmacy did.
  — Reena Advani, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
• Some roads may also be flooded.
  — Michelle Marchante updated May 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
• Tourists wearing bike shorts and fishing waders flood the trails and trout streams.
  — Robin Pfeifer, Midwest Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• Her lakefront house was flooded, too.
  — Dian Zhang, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
• That amount is enough to flood 578 square miles with a foot of water.
  — Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
• Some campsites will be flooded.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
• Emotions then flooded over him.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
• Aaron said that his inbox was flooded with e-mails from grateful users.
  — Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
• Reddit users were quick to flood the post with excitement and jokes.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025