Get to know Floodwaters better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Floodwaters meaning
The waters of a flood
Using Floodwaters
- The main meaning on this page is: The waters of a flood
- In the example corpus, floodwaters often appears in combinations such as: the floodwaters, by floodwaters, floodwaters in.
Context around Floodwaters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Floodwaters
- In this selection, "floodwaters" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rising, avoid, pumped, near, ravaged and down stand out and add context to how "floodwaters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include avoid floodwaters as they and away by floodwaters near the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "floodwaters" sits close to words such as als, antioch and aptly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with floodwaters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Echuca residents were encircled for days by floodwaters. (8 words)
Crews pumped floodwaters out from Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. (11 words)
Avoid floodwaters, as they may be contaminated by oil, gasoline, or raw sewage. (13 words)
A second breach opened up another 100 feet (30.48 meters) of the levee closer to the Pacific coast, providing a “relief valve” for the floodwaters to recede near the mouth of the river, officials said Monday during a news conference. (41 words)
Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a Dnieper River dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir. (41 words)
Floodwaters are receding following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, but debris washed along the Dnipro river is turning Odesa’s Black Sea coastline into “a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” according to Ukrainian authorities. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
An expansive home along 6th Avenue sits in rising floodwaters after levee breaks caused extensive flooding around Corcoran, Calif., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
A person walks through floodwaters near a stranded car along a flooded street in Las Vegas.
A second breach opened up another 100 feet (30.48 meters) of the levee closer to the Pacific coast, providing a “relief valve” for the floodwaters to recede near the mouth of the river, officials said Monday during a news conference.
Assisted by Kevin Boarts of Dryridge VFD, Withrow Jr. and the man were safely pulled out of the floodwaters.
Avoid floodwaters, as they may be contaminated by oil, gasoline, or raw sewage.
Cars swept in the floodwaters near Clark Atlanta University on Sept. 14, 2023.
Characters in “The Boosters” are sucked into the gung-ho swirl like people pulled into floodwaters.
Crews pumped floodwaters out from Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.
Echuca residents were encircled for days by floodwaters.
Floodwaters are receding following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, but debris washed along the Dnipro river is turning Odesa’s Black Sea coastline into “a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” according to Ukrainian authorities.
Floodwaters had peaked at Berri, near the SA/NSW border on New Year’s Eve and were expected to remain high for weeks.
Floodwaters in West Virginia forced some high school students to hunker down for the night in an impromptu slumber party complete with pizza, board games and football tosses in the gymnasium.
In Mississippi, a woman died inside her SUV after a rotted tree branch struck her vehicle, and in Arkansas a man drowned after he drove into high floodwaters.
It’s been a year since Kirkpatrick was forced out of her Dorothy home by rising floodwaters, and life still isn’t back to normal.
More than 900 evacuees from Peguis First Nation still can't return to their community nearly nine months after floodwaters ravaged the reserve.
New Zealand is under a national state of emergency after Cyclone Gabrielle bore down on its northern coast on Sunday and several people are still missing in areas saturated by floodwaters.
One survivor, a young mother, Rozel Malaton, lost her two children, 9-year-old Brooklyn and 3-year-old Kayle, along with her fiancé, Kenneth Ryan when their rental was engulfed by the floodwaters.
Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a Dnieper River dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir.
Search and rescue operations by national guard troops and law enforcement were under way in central California after a five-year old boy was swept away by floodwaters near the small village of San Miguel.
Severe Weather Nevada A taxi drives through floodwaters down South 3rd Street at East Imperial Avenue on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Las Vegas.
Common combinations with floodwaters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the floodwaters 24×
- by floodwaters 17×
- floodwaters in 13×
- in floodwaters 13×
- rising floodwaters 11×
- floodwaters on 9×
- floodwaters from 8×
- through floodwaters 7×
- as floodwaters 7×
- floodwaters and 6×