How to Use flooded in a Sentence

flooded

adjective

• When coming to a flooded road, turn around and head back.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 28 June 2026
• Do not drive into a flooded street.
  — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• Turn around, don't drown; do not drive into a flooded street.
  — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 22 Mar. 2026
• Despite this, a truck attempts to drive down the flooded street.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
• Heavy rain and flooded roadways can take a toll on a vehicle.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
• Rescuers said the people had tried to drive across a flooded road when they got stuck in the water.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• Some residents used surfboards and kayaks to get around flooded streets.
  — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
• Images of flooded streets, subways, and homes are our new normal.
  — Amy Chester, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
• The cut rock sides suggest that, rather than a river, the services might have been in a flooded quarry.
  — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Never attempt to drive through a flooded roadway or flowing stream.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
• Of the 20 washed away in the flooded river, 10 were children.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
• Many had been saved by rescue crews, after spending days or even weeks stranded on roofs, in trees and in flooded homes.
  — Jorge C. Carrasco, New York Times, 30 May 2024
• Even before high tide, the incoming surf sent empty trash cans floating down the flooded street.
  — Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023
• One man, who declined to provide his name, said his grandmother was stuck on the other side in a flooded home.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Buttonbush grows in full sun to partial shade and can thrive in wet, flooded conditions.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 28 Apr. 2026
• Never drive around the barriers blocking a flooded road.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• One person died while driving on a flooded road, swept away near Uvalde, authorities said.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
• Another picture shows a person outside the open front passenger-side door of a car stopped on a flooded road.
  — Joe Marusak may 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2026
• The clip later shows a flooded street, with a person shown diving into the water before standing knee-deep in the water near a car.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
• Authorities said six young adults were in the vehicle that was swept away as the car tried to cross a bridge over a flooded creek in the town of Grovespring.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Pump trains that clear flooded tracks are pushed by diesel locomotives, as are the de-icer cars that kept service running through the two most recent snowstorms.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Lauren Foley shared video from Girdlestone Road that showed a plow truck driving through the flooded street.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Without a safe way to carry a full cooler across the flooded creek, Graham and Josh improvised.
  — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2024
• Narrow rock passages dropped at steep angles into flooded sections of opaque, silty water that Richards compared to coffee.
  — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
• Also, if excess water drains to the property line, that's not just an annoyance—that's a flooded foundation.
  — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
• On Girdlestone Road, Lauren Foley shared video showing a plow truck driving through a flooded street.
  — Kristina Rex, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• The driver was safely rescued, but their vehicle will stay in the flooded roadway, between the road closures, until the water subsides.
  — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
• Waymo became aware of the issue on April 20 when an unoccupied car entered a flooded road at 40 mph.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 May 2026
• Lisa basically washes up on Dakota’s doorstep, while Dale and his team attempt to make their way to a flooded Annieville.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
• The Waymo robotaxi service has been having a bad week, particularly in dealing with flooded roads.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026