How to Use floodwater in a Sentence
floodwater
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On Monday, the park was closed as floodwater rushed through parts of the park.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
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The floodwaters reached the first floor of most buildings.
—Fox News, 28 May 2018
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The floodwater washed out a main road leading up to the vineyard.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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Brewer’s crew was at the scene when the floodwaters rapidly rose.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
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Heavy rains and rising floodwaters blocked the team’s path back out.
—Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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Avoid getting in or near floodwaters, both in the streets and inside your home.
—Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
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In much of the area, residents watched floodwater wash away their cars and homes.
—Jessica Pishko, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
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People there are urged to move to higher ground and to not drive through floodwaters.
—NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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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
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Footage from the ground shows cars floating above the muddy floodwater.
—Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 22 July 2021
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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
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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
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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
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The numbness started in Sam’s feet and worked its way up like floodwater.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
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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
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All of that rain and floodwater had to go somewhere, and much of it flowed into Galveston Bay.
—Tacey Hicks, Chron, 7 Feb. 2023
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Kids were not spared from the floodwaters, or from any phase of the disaster after.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2020
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As Stumpy reached peak bloom for the last time, floodwater surrounded it.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
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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 | Kataylor@theadvocate.com, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
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But everything around the house got slammed by the floodwater, and then by Milton's winds.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
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Her car was swept away by the floodwaters, according to Lt.
—Amir Vera, CNN, 23 June 2019
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Stay out of the ocean and floodwaters, and always avoid moving water.
—NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
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The sudden surge of floodwaters in this area of western Japan proved deadly for many.
—Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 9 July 2018
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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
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The mother of a 9-year-old Kentucky boy who was swept away by floodwaters last week paid tribute to her late son and expressed gratitude towards the community for their support.
—David Chiu, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Refrain from entering water that may have electricity in it and avoid walking through floodwaters.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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