How to Use floodwater in a Sentence

floodwater

noun

• On Monday, the park was closed as floodwater rushed through parts of the park.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
• The Rawlings were able to escape from the truck, which was swept away in the floodwater, with four of the children.
  — Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2020
• Heavy rains struck the area and parts of their path back to the cave entrance became swollen with floodwaters.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
• Brewer’s crew was at the scene when the floodwaters rapidly rose.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Heavy rains and rising floodwaters blocked the team’s path back out.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• To the south, in the basin that once held Tulare Lake, the floodwater was still coursing through rivers and canals toward the old lake bed.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Waller-Torres can be heard saying in the video as the six Marines push her car through the knee-high floodwater.
  — Fox News, 23 Sep. 2021
• Avoid getting in or near floodwaters, both in the streets and inside your home.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
• In much of the area, residents watched floodwater wash away their cars and homes.
  — Jessica Pishko, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• People there are urged to move to higher ground and to not drive through floodwaters.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
• The Bangkok Post reports the coach made sure the kids drank water dripping from cave walls and not the murky floodwaters that trapped them.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• Footage from the ground shows cars floating above the muddy floodwater.
  — Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 22 July 2021
• Last but not least, wash your floors and walls to remove any dirt left behind by the floodwater.
  — Carmen Collins, Country Living, 24 Jan. 2020
• The players and their coach have been trapped since June 23 by floodwaters in a dark, six-mile-long cave system.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
• When the floodwaters receded, the sharks remained stranded in the 51-acre body of water near the course's 14th hole.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• The numbness started in Sam’s feet and worked its way up like floodwater.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Meanwhile, the government continues to try to drain floodwater out of the cave in the hopes that the boys will be able to walk out.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 6 July 2018
• All of that rain and floodwater had to go somewhere, and much of it flowed into Galveston Bay.
  — Tacey Hicks, Chron, 7 Feb. 2023
• Kids were not spared from the floodwaters, or from any phase of the disaster after.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2020
• As Stumpy reached peak bloom for the last time, floodwater surrounded it.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
• The women seem to be about to go from their front porch on Lafayette Street onto small boats floating on the floodwater.
  — Karen Taylor Gist | [e-mail], NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• But everything around the house got slammed by the floodwater, and then by Milton's winds.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
• Her car was swept away by the floodwaters, according to Lt.
  — Amir Vera, CNN, 23 June 2019
• Stay out of the ocean and floodwaters, and always avoid moving water.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The sudden surge of floodwaters in this area of western Japan proved deadly for many.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• For the fifth time in four decades, the town of Guerneville was submerged under the murky brown floodwaters of the lower Russian River.
  — Tom Corringham, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2020
• The residents of Demydiv paid the price in the rivers of dank green floodwater that engulfed many of their homes.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• As floodwaters from the Swannanoa River rose to stomach level inside their house on Sept. 27, Mills’ 24-year-old son hacked his way through the attic ceiling with a chef’s knife and a hammer so the family could get atop the roof.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 19 Mar. 2025
• Cal Fire officials liken the maps to flood zone maps, which show the probability of an area being inundated by floodwaters, with the same goal: to keep home, family and property safe.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 11 Mar. 2025